Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001

Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Grand Junction, CO

July 10, 2001Mesa County, Colorado

NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 10, 2001, 6:49 PM MDT for Mesa County, Colorado. It was in force for 116 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Jul 10, 2001, 6:49 PM MDT (00:49 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 2001, 8:45 PM MDT
In force: 116 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Junction, CO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Mesa County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 56 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 483 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -124 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2020 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 142 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS55 KGJT 110052
FFWGJT

COC077-110245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND JUNCTION CO
649 PM MDT TUE JUL 10 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN MESA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL COLORADO

* UNTIL 845 PM MDT

* AT 649 PM MDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY 
  HEAVY RAIN AROUND GLADE PARK ON THE UNCOMPAHGRE PLATEAU...AND  
  WITHIN AREAS NORTH OF GATEWAY.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF 
SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND 
ARROYOS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. 

DO NOT ATTEMPT "TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN 
DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS...ABANDON IT 
IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND.

LAT...LON 3851 10904 3851 10876 3890 10850 3918 10904

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Jul 10, 2:00 PM MDT, 4 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 2:00 PM MDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before

WESTERN COLORADO & EASTERN UTAH AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND JUNCTION CO
200 PM MDT TUE JUL 10 2001

MOIST TAP STILL IN PLACE WITH SHORT WAVE VISIBLE ON WATER VAPOR TO
AID IN AFTERNOON...EVENING ACTIVITY.  50+DEW POINTS AND OVER ONE INCH
PW COMBINE WITH ACTIVITY THE PAST FEW DAYS TO BRING SCT/NMRS
TSRA. STORMS WILL MOVE ABOUT 15 KTS. THE FOUR CORNERS AREA IS NOW IN
EXCESSS RAINFALL. COULD ALSO SEE ISOLATED HAIL POTENTIAL TO AN INCH
THIS AFTERNOON. SLIGHT BREAK IN MOISTURE POSSIBLE FOR THURSDAY BUT
NOT ENOUGH TO REMOVE COMPLETELY. CLOUDS TO HELP KEEP HIGH TEMPS NEAR
NORMAL OR SLIGHTLY BELOW NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS.  DJC

IN THE EXTENDED...MOISTURE PLUME THAT WILL BE OVER THE CWFA INTO
THURSDAY WILL BE SHUNTED WEST OF THE REGION FRIDAY/SATURDAY AS UPPER
RIDGE RETROGRADES TO THE FOUR CORNERS. LOOKS AS THOUGH MONSOONAL
MOISTURE WILL BE TRAPPED UNDER THE RIDGE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY...SO
HAVE ADDED LOW POPS TO SOME VALLEY ZONES AND BUMPED MOUNTAIN POPS.
ATMOSPHERE WILL DRY TOWARD LATTER HALF OF THE WEEKEND AS RIDGE
BECOMES FIRMLY ENTRENCHED OVER FOUR CORNERS. AFTER SLIGHT COOL
DOWN...TEMPERATURES WILL RETURN TO NORMAL FOR THE WEEKEND.  CNJ

.GJT...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 10, 6:22 PM MDT, 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND JUNCTION, CO
622 PM MDT TUE JUL 10 2001

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0516 PM    5SW GRAND JUNCTION        CO   1.00 INCH HAIL
07/10/01   MESA                           REPORTED BY NWS TRAINED
                                          SPOTTER

0525 PM    6SW GRAND JUNCTION        CO   .75 INCH HAIL
07/10/01   MESA                           REPORTED BY NWS TRAINED
                                          SPOTTER

0525 PM    5S GRAND JUNCTION         CO   .88 INCH HAIL
07/10/01   MESA                           REPORTED BY NWS TRAINED
     X                                     SPOTTER

DJN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 10, 7:40 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GJT	Rio Blanco	2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Colorado, 2001 Every flash flood warning in 2001

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.