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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Grand Junction, CO

August 22, 2000Grand County, Utah

NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 2000, 6:28 PM MDT for Grand County, Utah. It was in force for 47 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 22, 2000, 6:28 PM MDT (00:28 UTC)
Expired
Aug 22, 2000, 7:15 PM MDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Junction, CO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Grand County, UT

The radar

The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:32 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Grand Junction, CO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 22, 1:48 PM MDT, 4 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 22, 1:48 PM MDT, 4 hours 40 minutes before
WESTERN COLORADO & EASTERN UTAH AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND JUNCTION CO
148 PM MDT TUE AUG 22 2000

MODELS FAIRLY CONSISTENT IN KEEPING THINGS FAIRLY PERSISTENT. MONSOON
PLUME PROGGED TO REMAIN OVER THE ENTIRE CWA THRU THURSDAY AND THE
EXTENDED PERIOD. WEAK VORT MAXES TO CONTINUE TO RIDE THE SWLY FLOW ON
THE WEST SIDE OF THE DOMINATING MIDWEST RIDGE...WITH MOST SIGNIFICANT
ONE PROJECTED OVER NW CO/NR UT WED EVNG BY AVN. ONLY SIGNIFICANT
CHANGE IS THE LOSS OF JET DYNAMICS AS R/R QUAD OF JET INFLUENCING
THIS MORNINGS AND AFTERNOONS TSTMS OVER NW CO/NE UT EXITS TO
WYOMING WITH NO REPLACEMENT IN SITE. MODELS WNAT TO RETROGRATD HIGH
CENTR OVER CO BY THUR MORNING...ESPECIALLY THE ETA. ETA SHOVES
MOISTURE PLUEN WEST OVER UT BY THEN...BUT AVN DOESNT MOVE THE
MOISTURE PLUME AND PCPN MUCH AT ALL AND CANT FIND ANY STRONG
INDICATIONS ON WV SATELLITE OF THE MONSOON LEAVING ANY TIME SOON. AND
EASTERLY PUSH OVER S TX LOOKS TO GETTING TURNED WELL TO THE NORTH
OVER NM. SO WILL STAY WITH THE WETTER AVN SOLN. NO CHANGES IN THE
EXTENDED EITHER AS RIDGE CENTER SHOWN TO SLIDE BACK TO THE SOUTHEAST
WITH MONSOON MOISTURE PAINTING THE CWA EACH DAY.   CUOCO

.GJT...NONE.

In the hours before

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.