Alert archive / Colorado / High Wind Warnings in 2015
High Wind Warning 7, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this high wind warning at Dec 25, 2015, 1:21 PM MST for Huerfano County, Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 4 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 25, 2015, 1:21 PM MST (20:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 25, 2015, 5:00 PM MST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:22 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 25, 1:56 PM MST | NON-TSTM WND GST 76 | 8 Nw Gardner, CO | BLACK MT RAWS |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 286 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
- 1912 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 91 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 289 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
250 WWUS75 KPUB 252021 NPWPUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 121 PM MST FRI DEC 25 2015 COZ087-088-260000- /O.NEW.KPUB.HW.W.0007.151225T2021Z-151226T0000Z/ WALSENBURG VICINITY/UPPER HUERFANO RIVER BASIN BELOW 7500 FT- TRINIDAD VICINITY/WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY BELOW 7500 FT- INCLUDING...WALSENBURG...TRINIDAD 121 PM MST FRI DEC 25 2015 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON. * LOCATION...THE SOUTHERN INTERSTATE 25 CORRIDOR INCLUDING WALSENBURG AND TRINIDAD. * CAUSE AND TIMING...A STRONG JET STREAM WILL MOVE OVERHEAD THIS AFTERNOON...PRODUCING A PERIOD OF HIGH WINDS. * WIND...SOUTHWEST 30-40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 65 MPH. * IMPACT...STRONG CROSSWINDS WILL CREATE DIFFICULT DRIVING CONDITIONS ALONG INTERSTATE 25...ESPECIALLY FOR LARGER...HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR MORE CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE. && $$
2 follow-up statements
142 WWUS75 KPUB 252204 NPWPUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 304 PM MST FRI DEC 25 2015 COZ087-088-260000- /O.CON.KPUB.HW.W.0007.000000T0000Z-151226T0000Z/ WALSENBURG VICINITY/UPPER HUERFANO RIVER BASIN BELOW 7500 FT- TRINIDAD VICINITY/WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY BELOW 7500 FT- INCLUDING...WALSENBURG...TRINIDAD 304 PM MST FRI DEC 25 2015 ...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON... * LOCATION...THE SOUTHERN INTERSTATE 25 CORRIDOR INCLUDING WALSENBURG AND TRINIDAD. * CAUSE AND TIMING...A STRONG JET STREAM WILL MOVE OVERHEAD THIS AFTERNOON...PRODUCING A PERIOD OF HIGH WINDS. * WIND...SOUTHWEST 30-40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 65 MPH. * IMPACT...STRONG CROSSWINDS WILL CREATE DIFFICULT DRIVING CONDITIONS ALONG INTERSTATE 25...ESPECIALLY FOR LARGER...HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR MORE CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE. && $$
286 WWUS75 KPUB 260018 NPWPUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 518 PM MST FRI DEC 25 2015 COZ087-088-260130- /O.EXP.KPUB.HW.W.0007.000000T0000Z-151226T0000Z/ WALSENBURG VICINITY/UPPER HUERFANO RIVER BASIN BELOW 7500 FT- TRINIDAD VICINITY/WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY BELOW 7500 FT- INCLUDING...WALSENBURG...TRINIDAD 518 PM MST FRI DEC 25 2015 ...HIGH WIND WARNING HAS EXPIRED... ALTHOUGH STILL WINDY...WINDS HAVE DECREASED BELOW WARNING LEVELS. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 25, 7:41 AM MST | Blizzard Warning | PUB | Conejos, Mineral, Rio Grande | 15 hr |
| Dec 25, 3:04 PM MST | Blizzard Watch | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 13 hr |
| Dec 25, 3:04 PM MST | Winter Storm Watch | PUB | Costilla, Huerfano, Las Animas | 13 hr |
Nearby
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.