Alert archive / Colorado / Winter Storm Watches in 2017
Winter Storm Watch 5, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this winter storm watch at Feb 4, 2017, 3:16 PM MST for 9 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Feb 6, 2017, 9:00 PM MST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 4, 2017, 3:16 PM MST (22:16 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 6, 2017, 9:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Feb 6, 2017, 4:58 AM MST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Counties Boulder County, CO, Clear Creek County, CO, Gilpin County, CO, Grand County, CO, Jackson County, CO, Jefferson County, CO, Larimer County, CO, Park County, CO, Summit County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 254 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
- 1787 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
Winter Storm Watches in Colorado, 2017Every winter storm watch in 2017
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.