Alert archive / Colorado / High Wind Watches in 2022
High Wind Watch 1, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
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.
- 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
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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</html>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.