Alert archive / Colorado / High Wind Warnings in 2016
High Wind Warning 3, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this high wind warning at Jul 15, 2016, 4:47 PM MDT for 9 counties in Colorado. It was in force for 115 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 15, 2016, 4:47 PM MDT (22:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2016, 6:42 PM MDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Pueblo County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:50 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 221 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
- 23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -351 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3003 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
979 WWUS75 KPUB 152247 NPWPUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 447 PM MDT FRI JUL 15 2016 COZ086>089-093>099-160200- /O.NEW.KPUB.HW.W.0003.160715T2247Z-160716T0200Z/ PUEBLO VICINITY/PUEBLO COUNTY BELOW 6300 FEET- WALSENBURG VICINITY/UPPER HUERFANO RIVER BASIN BELOW 7500 FT- TRINIDAD VICINITY/WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY BELOW 7500 FT- CROWLEY COUNTY-LA JUNTA VICINITY/OTERO COUNTY- EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY-WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY- EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY-LAS ANIMAS VICINITY/BENT COUNTY- LAMAR VICINITY/PROWERS COUNTY-SPRINGFIELD VICINITY/BACA COUNTY- INCLUDING...PUEBLO...WALSENBURG...TRINIDAD...ORDWAY... OLNEY SPRINGS...LA JUNTA...ROCKY FORD...BRANSON...KIM...EADS... SHERIDAN LAKE...LAS ANIMAS...LAMAR...SPRINGFIELD...WALSH 447 PM MDT FRI JUL 15 2016 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING. * LOCATION...PORTIONS OF KIOWA...CROWLEY... BENT...BACA... OTERO...PUEBLO...PROWERS...BACA...HUERFANO AND LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES. * CAUSE AND TIMING...STRONG OUTFLOW WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AT TIME...FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN FAR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS PORTIONS OF KIOWA...CROWLEY... BENT...BACA...OTERO...PUEBLO...PROWERS...BACA...HUERFANO AND LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES INTO THIS EVENING. * WIND...IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AT TIMES. * IMPACT...STRONG WINDS WILL MAKE TRAVEL DIFFICULT. POWER OUTAGES AND TREE DAMAGE WILL BE POSSIBLE. POOR VISIBILITIES IN BLOWING DUST MAY OCCUR.| 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
730 WWUS75 KPUB 160042 NPWPUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 642 PM MDT FRI JUL 15 2016 COZ086>089-093>099-160145- /O.CAN.KPUB.HW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-160716T0200Z/ PUEBLO VICINITY/PUEBLO COUNTY BELOW 6300 FEET- WALSENBURG VICINITY/UPPER HUERFANO RIVER BASIN BELOW 7500 FT- TRINIDAD VICINITY/WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY BELOW 7500 FT- CROWLEY COUNTY-LA JUNTA VICINITY/OTERO COUNTY- EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY-WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY- EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY-LAS ANIMAS VICINITY/BENT COUNTY- LAMAR VICINITY/PROWERS COUNTY-SPRINGFIELD VICINITY/BACA COUNTY- INCLUDING...PUEBLO...WALSENBURG...TRINIDAD...ORDWAY... OLNEY SPRINGS...LA JUNTA...ROCKY FORD...BRANSON...KIM...EADS... SHERIDAN LAKE...LAS ANIMAS...LAMAR...SPRINGFIELD...WALSH 642 PM MDT FRI JUL 15 2016 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH WIND WARNING. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM OUTFLOW WINDS HAVE SUBSIDED...THEREFORE THE HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 6:09 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 51 min |
| Jul 14, 6:20 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 25 min |
| Jul 14, 6:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 32 min |
| Jul 14, 6:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 46 min |
| Jul 14, 6:53 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 52 min |
| Jul 14, 7:20 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Elbert | 40 min |
| Jul 14, 7:25 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Baca | 95 min |
| Jul 14, 7:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 52 min |
| Jul 14, 8:36 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 84 min |
| Jul 14, 9:56 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Pueblo | 94 min |
| Jul 15, 12:47 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 28 min |
| Jul 15, 1:59 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Baca | 31 min |
| Jul 15, 2:09 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | PUB | Alamosa, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla, Custer, El Paso and 9 more | 31 hr |
| Jul 15, 2:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 39 min |
| Jul 15, 2:26 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 34 min |
| Jul 15, 2:39 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Baca | 36 min |
| Jul 15, 2:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 24 min |
| Jul 15, 3:00 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 30 min |
| Jul 15, 3:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 27 min |
| Jul 15, 3:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 32 min |
| Jul 15, 3:29 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 31 min |
Nearby
High Wind Warnings in Colorado, 2016Every high wind warning in 2016
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.