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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Grand Junction, CO

May 31, 1994Delta County, Montrose County, Colorado

NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1994, 4:27 PM MDT for Delta County, Montrose County, Colorado. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 31, 1994, 4:27 PM MDT (22:27 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 1994, 5:00 PM MDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Junction, CO
Area
Whole counties

Counties Delta County, CO, Montrose County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 406 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, Salt Lake City I, UT at 12:00Z on 1994-05-31Temperature 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 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Salt Lake City I, UT at 12:00Z on 1994-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 46 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
3559 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Grand Junction, CO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 31, 3:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGJTMoffat, Rio Blanco33 min

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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.