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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Grand Junction, CO

July 27, 2004Garfield County, Colorado

NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2004, 2:15 PM MDT for Garfield County, Colorado. It was in force for 45 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
Jul 27, 2004, 2:15 PM MDT (20:15 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 2004, 3:00 PM MDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Junction, CO
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Garfield County, CO

The radar

The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 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

Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 73 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, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 2004-07-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 2004-07-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 74 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1665 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
232 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Jul 27, 3:41 AM MDT, 10 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 3:41 AM MDT, 10 hours 34 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 27, 1:27 PM MDT, 48 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND JUNCTION CO
127 PM MDT TUE JUL 27 2004

COZ001>005-007-008-010-013-UTZ023>025-281100-
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-LOWER YAMPA RIVER BASIN-
ROAN AND TAVAPUTS PLATEAUS-TAVAPUTS PLATEAU-UPPER YAMPA RIVER BASIN-
127 PM MDT TUE JUL 27 2004

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST COLORADO AND
NORTHEAST UTAH...GENERALLY NORTH OF INTERSTATE 70.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS TO AROUND 40 MPH WILL
ACCOMPANY THE THUNDERSTORMS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR EACH AFTERNOON AND EVENING...MAINLY
OVER THE MOUNTAINS. STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT FROM
THESE STORMS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT...
THOUGH SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO CALL IN RAINFALL...HAIL OR WIND
REPORTS.

COZ006-009-011-012-014-017>023-UTZ022-027>029-281100-
ANIMAS RIVER BASIN-ARCHES/GRAND FLAT-CANYONLANDS/NATURAL BRIDGES-
CENTRAL GUNNISON AND UNCOMPAHGRE RIVER BASIN-
FOUR CORNERS/UPPER DOLORES RIVER-GRAND AND BATTLEMENT MESAS-
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-
WEST ELK AND SAWATCH MOUNTAINS-
127 PM MDT TUE JUL 27 2004

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWEST COLORADO AND
SOUTHEAST UTAH...GENERALLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM MDT FOR
PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST COLORADO AND SOUTHEAST UTAH. REFER TO THE
DENSEL9 FOR MORE DETAILS. THE POTENTIAL FOR STRONG TO SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXIST THROUGH AT LEAST 600 PM MDT. THUNDERSTORMS
WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...HAIL GREATER THAN 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER...AND VERY HEAVY
RAINFALL...ALONG WITH FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR EACH AFTERNOON AND EVENING...
MAINLY OVER THE MOUNTAINS. STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT
FROM THUNDERSTORMS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT...
THOUGH SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO CALL IN RAINFALL...HAIL OR WIND
REPORTS.

NADLER/COLTON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 2:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGJTMesa37 min
Jul 27, 3:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGJTMesa42 min
Jul 27, 3:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGJTSan Juan41 min
Jul 27, 3:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGJTSan Juan44 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004

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.