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High Wind Watch 1, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

March 22, 20224 counties in Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this high wind watch at Mar 22, 2022, 2:58 PM MDT for 4 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Mar 23, 2022, 10:00 AM MDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 22, 2022, 2:58 PM MDT (20:58 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 23, 2022, 10:00 AM MDT
Expired
Mar 23, 2022, 3:39 AM MDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

Counties Arapahoe County, CO, Douglas County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Lincoln County, CO

The radar

The Denver radar (KFTG), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:01 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 (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 106 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2022-03-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2022-03-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -113 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1602 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high wind watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind watch went out at Mar 22, 12:01 PM MDT, 2 hours 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 22, 12:01 PM MDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 22, 11:02 AM MDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Denver/Boulder CO
1102 AM MDT Tue Mar 22 2022

COZ030>051-231715-
Jackson County Below 9000 Feet-
West Jackson and West Grand Counties Above 9000 Feet-
Grand and Summit Counties Below 9000 Feet-
South and East Jackson/Larimer/North and Northeast Grand/
Northwest Boulder Counties Above 9000 Feet-
South and Southeast Grand/West Central and Southwest Boulder/
Gilpin/Clear Creek/Summit/North and West Park Counties Above
9000 Feet-Larimer and Boulder Counties Between 6000 and 9000 Feet-
Jefferson and West Douglas Counties Above 6000 Feet/Gilpin/Clear
Creek/Northeast Park Counties Below 9000 Feet-
Central and Southeast Park County-
Larimer County Below 6000 Feet/Northwest Weld County-
Boulder And Jefferson Counties Below 6000 Feet/West Broomfield
County-
North Douglas County Below 6000 Feet/Denver/West Adams and
Arapahoe Counties/East Broomfield County-
Elbert/Central and East Douglas Counties Above 6000 Feet-
Northeast Weld County-Central and South Weld County-Morgan County-
Central and East Adams and Arapahoe Counties-
North and Northeast Elbert County Below 6000 Feet/North Lincoln
County-
Southeast Elbert County Below 6000 Feet/South Lincoln County-
Logan County-Washington County-Sedgwick County-Phillips County-
1102 AM MDT Tue Mar 22 2022

This hazardous weather outlook is for northeast and north central
Colorado.

.DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight

Light showers will continue today with the greatest coverage and
intensity in the high country. Accumulations will be light. A few
areas in the mountains may get 1 to 3 inches but most areas will
get less than an inch. Expect breezy northerly winds across the
plains gusting generally 35 to 45 mph in many areas and strongest
further east and south. Patchy blowing snow will cause poor
visibility in the mountains and on the plains around and east of
the Palmer Divide.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday

Expect strong northerly winds across the plains Wednesday with
gusts up to 45 mph. Dry with a warming trend from Thursday through
the weekend.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation will not be needed.

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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.