Alert archive / Colorado / High Wind Warnings in 2015
High Wind Warning 4, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this high wind warning at Nov 18, 2015, 12:02 PM MST for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 18, 2015, 12:02 PM MST (19:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 18, 2015, 3:19 PM MST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
County El Paso County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 160 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2165 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 254 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
076 WWUS75 KPUB 181902 NPWPUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1202 PM MST WED NOV 18 2015 COZ084-085-182300- /O.NEW.KPUB.HW.W.0004.151118T1902Z-151118T2300Z/ NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/MONUMENT RIDGE/RAMPART RANGE BELOW 7500 FT- COLORADO SPRINGS VICINITY/SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE BELOW 7400 FT- INCLUDING...BLACK FOREST...AIR FORCE ACADEMY...COLORADO SPRINGS 1202 PM MST WED NOV 18 2015 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON. * LOCATION...EL PASO COUNTY. * CAUSE AND TIMING...AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND JET STREAM MAXIMUM WILL CAUSE HIGH WINDS ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH MID AFTERNOON. * WIND...WEST TO NORTHWEST 25 TO 45...GUSTING TO 65 MPH. * IMPACT...DOWNED POWER LINES AND TREES WILL BE POSSIBLE. TRAVEL WILL BE HAZARDOUS. GUSTY CROSSWINDS MAY CAUSE SUDDEN SHIFTS IN VEHICLE MOTION. BLOWING SNOW...DUST...WEEDS OR OTHER DEBRIS MAY CAUSE RESTRICTED VISIBILITY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS THAT DAMAGING HIGH WINDS ARE OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WINDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH...OR GUSTS TO 58 MPH OR MORE ARE EXPECTED. TREES AND POWER LINES MAY FALL. STAY AWAY FROM BOTH. IF DRIVING... REDUCE TRAVEL SPEEDS AND KEEP A FIRM GRIP ON THE WHEEL. BE PREPARED FOR SUDDEN REDUCTIONS IN VISIBILITY. && $$
1 follow-up statement
058 WWUS75 KPUB 182219 NPWPUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 319 PM MST WED NOV 18 2015 COZ084-085-182330- /O.CAN.KPUB.HW.W.0004.000000T0000Z-151118T2300Z/ NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/MONUMENT RIDGE/RAMPART RANGE BELOW 7500 FT- COLORADO SPRINGS VICINITY/SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE BELOW 7400 FT- INCLUDING...BLACK FOREST...AIR FORCE ACADEMY...COLORADO SPRINGS 319 PM MST WED NOV 18 2015 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH WIND WARNING. WINDS HAVE DROPPED BELOW DAMAGING...WARNING LEVELS. HOWEVER... GUSTS TO 40 OR 50 MPH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. CAUTION IS STILL ADVISED. $$
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.