Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Grand Junction, CO

August 12, 1997Rio Blanco County, Colorado

NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 1997, 1:07 PM MDT for Rio Blanco County, Colorado. It was in force for 33 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 12, 1997, 1:07 PM MDT (19:07 UTC)
Expired
Aug 12, 1997, 1:40 PM MDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Junction, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Rio Blanco County, CO

The radar

The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 12, 3:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGJTMesa48 min
Aug 12, 2:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGJTGrand65 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.