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High Wind in Central Yampa River Basin, Colorado
High Wind July 29, 2025 · Central Yampa River Basin, Colorado
What the National Weather Service wrote
A peak wind gust of 58 mph occurred at the Rangely Airport at 1535 MST due to a decaying shower with no lightning present.
The wider storm
Moisture was slowly increasing around an area of high pressure to our west, allowing for diurnal showers and storms to form over the high terrain and drift into some lower valleys. Some of these decaying showers produced strong outflow wind gusts even with no lightning present over Rangely Airport with a gust to 58 mph.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1285749. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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