Substantial Downslope Wind Event-Front Range of Colorado

[guest]

Once again, Colorado is experiencing high winds today, often exceeding severe thunderstorm/weak tornado thresholds (equivalent to F1 strength). A news update of damage can be found at
http://www.9news.com

Scroll down to NREL's tower links (for wind speed) on this page:
http://inte099182.halls.colostate.edu/~vig...o_wind_page.htm

Last night a hydraulic jump-like shock in the winds traveled east through Fort Collins-I drove through it. Quite impressive as winds went from 0 mph to very gusty (no means of measuring unfortunately), but 80 mph gusts are common across the front range today and last night.

 

[Robert Dewey]

Wow, station D1 is reporting wind gusts up around 93MPH :shock:

I enjoy watching high winds such as that, especially when the cover such a large area (vs. microburst size).

The highest non-convective wind gust I measure here just north of Detroit was 65MPH... Highest I experienced this year as far as convective speed was around 90MPH or 95MPH...

 

[John Cameron]

This was quite an event. Some forecast models and NWS offices didn't quite pick up on it's scale. We had gusts of 40-45 through much of the late morning and early afternoon, and temperatures warmed to the low 70s! 8)

 

[mikegeukes]

Local Storm Report from the Denver office today.
http://kamala.cod.edu/offs/KDEN/0412202216.nwus55.html

Low Relative Humidity:
Relative Humidity in parts of eastern Colorado, western Kansas western Oklahoma and the panhandle of Oklahoma and Texas, some stations are reporting relative humidity between 5 to 9 percent. The lowest relative humidity I coud find today was Canadian, Texas. Temperature of 72 and a Dew Point of -13, Relative Humidity 3 percent.

CANADIAN FAIR 72 -13 3 W8 29.58F

Mike