Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Grand Junction, CO

September 17, 2001Mesa County, Colorado

NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 17, 2001, 3:59 PM MDT for Mesa County, Colorado. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Sep 17, 2001, 3:59 PM MDT (21:59 UTC)
Expired
Sep 17, 2001, 4:45 PM MDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Junction, CO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Mesa County, CO

The radar

The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Sep 17, 4:10 PM MDTHail 0.75Mesa, CO

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

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
Sep 17, 1:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGJTGarfield, Rio Blanco49 min
Sep 17, 1:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGJTGarfield47 min
Sep 17, 2:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGJTMesa46 min
Sep 17, 3:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGJTMesa44 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2001Every severe thunderstorm 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.