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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Grand Junction, CO

June 20, 2004Moffat County, Colorado; Daggett County, Utah

NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2004, 8:51 PM MDT for Moffat County, Colorado; Daggett County, Utah. It was in force for 39 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
Jun 20, 2004, 8:51 PM MDT (02:51 UTC)
Expired
Jun 20, 2004, 9:30 PM MDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Junction, CO
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Moffat County, CO, Daggett County, UT

The radar

The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 196 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:55 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 256 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 00:00Z on 2004-06-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 445 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2004-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 68 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
445 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2796 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
181 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.6

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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 Jun 20, 1:47 PM MDT, 7 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 1:47 PM MDT, 7 hours 4 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND JUNCTION CO
147 PM MDT SUN JUN 20 2004

.SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT)...
AREA NORTH OF THE BOOKCLIFFS REMAINS RELATIVELY MOIST AND UNSTABLE...
WITH DEW POINTS IN THE 40S. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL
CONTINUE TO FORM OVER THE UINTAS AND THE ROAN/TAVAPUTS PLATEAUS AND
PROPAGATING EAST THROUGH THE EVENING. THIS ACTIVITY IS HELPED ALONG
BY A MINOR JET SPEED MAXIMA AND WEAK VORT MAX SHOWN FAIRLY WELL BY
RUC. TSTMS CURRENTLY ARE POP AND DROP WEAK CELLS...BUT THE SPEED
SHEAR IN THE SOUNDING SHOULD BE ENOUGH FOR SOME MULTI-CELL DEVELOPMENT
LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING.

A STRONGER WAVE IS APPROACHING FROM THE NORTHWEST WILL AFFECT THE
AREA LATE TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY. THE BEST THUNDERSTORM DEVELOP IS
EXPECTED OVER THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS...ZONE 4 IN PARTICULAR...WHERE
THE BEST DYNAMIC SUPPORT IS PROJECTED.  HAVE INCREASED POPS OVER THE
NORTHERN CWA OVERNIGHT AND STARTED THE HIGHER POPS LATE MONDAY
MORNING OVER THE NORTH. WITH FREEZING LEVEL LOWER UP NORTH...SMALL
HAIL IS A POSSIBILITY. STORMS TO PUSH FURTHER SOUTH MONDAY AND MONDAY
NIGHT AS THE SHORTWAVE MOVES SOUTHEAST. NOCTURNAL CONVECTION OF THE
MOUNTAINS IS A POSSIBILITY AGAIN MONDAY NIGHT.

CLOUDS SHOULD KEEP LOW TEMPS ABOUT STEADY-STATE OVER THE NORTH
TONIGHT...BUT MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT SHOULD BE COOLER. THE REST
OF THE CWA APPEARS WILL CLOSER TO GFS GUIDANCE...AS ETA APPEARS ON
THE COOL SIDE.

.LONG TERM (TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY)...
MID RANGE MODELS IN VERY GOOD AGREEMENT FOR THE BIG PICTURE. OMEGA BLOCK
FORMS EARLY IN THE PERIOD WITH LOW CENTERS OVER THE EASTERN PACIFIC AND
NORTH OF THE GREAT LAKES...AND HIGH PRESSURE OVER WESTERN NORTH AMERICA.
THIS LARGE SCALE PATTERN REMAINS CONSTANT THROUGH THE END OF THE PERIOD
WITH EASTERN UT/WESTERN CO DOMINATED BY THE HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE. MODELS
INDICATE THAT SUFFICIENT MOISTURE WILL REMAIN TRAPPED UNDER THE RIDGE
FOR DIURNAL AND TERRAIN DRIVEN CONVECTION EACH AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
ALSO A NUMBER OF WEAK DISTURBANCES WILL MOVE UNDERNEATH THE HIGH
PRESSURE DOME THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD. WILL NOT TRY AND TIME ANY WAVE AT
THIS TIME. BUT HAVE ADJUSTED POPS UPWARD OVER THE MOUNTAINS INTO THE
SLIGHT CHANCE CATEGORY TO BROAD BRUSH THE AFTERNOONS AND EVENINGS.
TEMPERATURES WARM EARLY IN THE PERIOD...CHANGING LITTLE FROM DAY TO DAY
LATER IN THE WEEK. HEFFERNAN

&&

.GJT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
.CO...NONE.
.UT...NONE.

CJC/EH
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 20, 6:05 AM MDT, 14 hours 46 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND JUNCTION CO
605 AM MDT SUN JUN 20 2004

COZ001>005-007>010-012-013-UTZ023>025-211200-
CENTRAL COLORADO RIVER BASIN-CENTRAL YAMPA RIVER BASIN-
DEBEQUE TO SILT CORRIDOR-EASTERN UINTA BASIN-EASTERN UINTA MOUNTAINS-
ELKHEAD AND PARK MOUNTAINS-FLAT TOPS-
GORE AND ELK MOUNTAINS/CENTRAL MOUNTAINS-GRAND AND BATTLEMENT MESAS-
LOWER YAMPA RIVER BASIN-ROAN AND TAVAPUTS PLATEAUS-TAVAPUTS PLATEAU-
UPPER YAMPA RIVER BASIN-WEST ELK AND SAWATCH MOUNTAINS-
605 AM MDT SUN JUN 20 2004

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWESTERN COLORADO AND
NORTHEASTERN UTAH.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT...

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING
WILL OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.  SOME THUNDERSTORMS WILL
BE STRONG AND PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS TO 45 MPH AND SMALL HAIL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH CONTINUE ON MONDAY.  SOME STORMS WILL
BE STRONG AND PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS.  THERE IS A SLIGHT
CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH PENNY TO NICKEL SIZED HAIL.

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ON TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY WILL NOT BE AS
STRONG AS THE STORMS TODAY AND MONDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT.

COZ006-011-014-017>023-UTZ022-027>029-211200-
ANIMAS RIVER BASIN-ARCHES/GRAND FLAT-CANYONLANDS/NATURAL BRIDGES-
CENTRAL GUNNISON AND UNCOMPAHGRE RIVER BASIN-
FOUR CORNERS/UPPER DOLORES RIVER-GRAND VALLEY-
LA SAL AND ABAJO MOUNTAINS-NORTHWEST SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS-
PARADOX VALLEY/LOWER DOLORES RIVER-SAN JUAN RIVER BASIN-
SOUTHEAST UTAH-SOUTHWEST SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS-
UNCOMPAHGRE PLATEAU AND DALLAS DIVIDE-UPPER GUNNISON RIVER VALLEY-
605 AM MDT SUN JUN 20 2004

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE VALLEYS OF SOUTHWEST
COLORADO AND SOUTHEASTERN UTAH.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT...

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...

THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ON MONDAY AND AGAIN
ON THURSDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 20, 3:08 PM MDT, 5 hours 43 minutes 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.