Alert archive / Colorado / High Wind Watches in 2024
High Wind Watch 3, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this high wind watch at Mar 23, 2024, 2:55 PM MDT for 6 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Mar 24, 2024, 6:00 PM MDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 23, 2024, 2:55 PM MDT (20:55 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 24, 2024, 6:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Mar 24, 2024, 1:55 PM MDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Counties Elbert County, CO, Larimer County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Logan County, CO, Washington County, CO, Weld County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:54 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 433 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
- 1242 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 288 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 23, 12:34 PM MDT, 2 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 23, 12:34 PM MDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 23, 11:02 AM MDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Denver/Boulder CO 1102 AM MDT Sat Mar 23 2024 COZ030>051-241715- 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 Sat Mar 23 2024 This hazardous weather outlook is for northeast and north central Colorado. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight Scattered light snow showers will develop over the mountains this afternoon, with minimal accumulations expected. Light to moderate snow will develop over the mountains this evening and tonight. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday The next storm will move across the area Sunday through Sunday night. This system will bring a period of heavier snowfall to the mountains, southern foothills, and Palmer Divide Sunday and Sunday night with travel impacts into early Monday morning. Across the Denver metro and the rest of the plains, rain will switch to snow by early Sunday evening. Snowfall amounts around Denver will be in the 2 to 4 inch range with locally up to 6 inches in the far western and southern suburbs. Across the plains snowfall amounts will be in the 1 to 2 inch range. Gusty north winds may cause poor visibility in blowing snow across portions of the plains as well and across the Palmer Divide. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will not be needed today or tonight.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 3:22 AM MDT | Winter Weather Advisory | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Denver and 14 more | 57 hr |
| Mar 23, 3:06 PM MDT | Winter Storm Watch | BOU | Arapahoe, Clear Creek, Douglas, Elbert, Gilpin, Jefferson and 1 more | 13 hr |
Nearby
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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.