Alert archive / Colorado / High Wind Warnings in 2016
High Wind Warning 6, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this high wind warning at Dec 5, 2016, 3:17 PM MST for 4 counties in Colorado. It was in force for 3 hr. 2 reports 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 5, 2016, 3:17 PM MST (22:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 5, 2016, 6:00 PM MST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Counties Logan County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Washington County, CO, Weld County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:22 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 5, 3:23 PM MST | NON-TSTM WND GST 52 | 1 N Akron, CO | ASOS STATION AKRON-WASHINGTON COUNTY AIRPORT /AKO/. |
| Dec 5, 3:44 PM MST | NON-TSTM WND GST 60 | 4 Ne Garden City, CO | AWOS STATION GREELEY-WELD COUNTY AIRPORT /GXY/. |
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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 2753 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
350 WWUS75 KBOU 052217 NPWBOU URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER/BOULDER CO 317 PM MST MON DEC 5 2016 COZ042>044-048-049-060100- /O.NEW.KBOU.HW.W.0006.161205T2217Z-161206T0100Z/ NORTHEAST WELD COUNTY-CENTRAL AND SOUTH WELD COUNTY-MORGAN COUNTY- LOGAN COUNTY-WASHINGTON COUNTY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF BRIGGSDALE, GROVER, PAWNEE BUTTES, RAYMER, STONEHAM, EATON, FORT LUPTON, GREELEY, ROGGEN, BRUSH, FORT MORGAN, GOODRICH, WIGGINS, CROOK, MERINO, STERLING, PEETZ, AKRON, COPE, LAST CHANCE, AND OTIS 317 PM MST MON DEC 5 2016 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING, WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MST THIS EVENING. * TIMING...STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH 6 PM MST. * WINDS...GUSTS TO 65 MPH. * IMPACTS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL CREATE DIFFICULT TRAVEL CONDITIONS FOR LIGHT WEIGHT AND 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
391 WWUS75 KBOU 060058 NPWBOU URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER/BOULDER CO 558 PM MST MON DEC 5 2016 COZ042>044-048-049-060200- /O.EXP.KBOU.HW.W.0006.000000T0000Z-161206T0100Z/ NORTHEAST WELD COUNTY-CENTRAL AND SOUTH WELD COUNTY-MORGAN COUNTY- LOGAN COUNTY-WASHINGTON COUNTY- 558 PM MST MON DEC 5 2016 ...HIGH WIND WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM MST THIS EVENING... WIND GUSTS HAVE DROPPED BELOW WARNING CRITERIA THEREFORE THE HIGH WIND WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 5, 2:07 AM MST | High Wind Warning | BOU | Boulder, Clear Creek, Douglas, Gilpin, Jefferson, Larimer and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 5, 2:48 PM MST | Winter Storm Watch | BOU | Boulder, Clear Creek, Gilpin, Grand, Jackson, Jefferson and 3 more | 14 hr |
| Dec 5, 2:48 PM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Denver and 10 more | 44 hr |
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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.