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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Grand Junction, CO

June 23, 2005Montrose County, Colorado

NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2005, 2:47 PM MDT for Montrose County, Colorado. It was in force for 43 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 23, 2005, 2:47 PM MDT (20:47 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 2005, 3:30 PM MDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Junction, CO
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Montrose County, CO

The radar

The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:47 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 83 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 2005-06-23Temperature 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 2005-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 90 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
1610 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
149 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 Jun 23, 2:14 PM MDT, 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 2:14 PM MDT, 33 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 23, 5:45 AM MDT, 9 hours 2 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND JUNCTION CO
545 AM MDT THU JUN 23 2005

UTZ023-024-241300-
EASTERN UINTA BASIN-EASTERN UINTA MOUNTAINS-
545 AM MDT THU JUN 23 2005

...FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE FOR THE DUCHESNE
RIVER NEAR RANDLETT...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST UTAH.

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

THE WATER LEVEL ON THE DUCHESNE RIVER NEAR RANDLETT...HAS RISEN
SIGNIFICANTLY OVER THE PAST COUPLE DAYS CREATING LOWLAND FLOODING.
THE DUCHESNE WILL REMAIN HIGH THE REST OF THE WEEK. PLEASE REFER TO
THE DENFLSGJT FOR FURTHER DETAILS.

IN ADDITION...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL REDEVELOP
THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING HOURS BEFORE
DIMINISHING LATER TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP EACH
AFTERNOON AND EVENING THROUGH TUESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT. HOWEVER...
SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY ADDITIONAL FLOODING ALONG AREA
RIVERS...STREAMS AND CREEKS.

COZ001>014-017>023-UTZ022-025-027>029-241300-
ANIMAS RIVER BASIN-ARCHES/GRAND FLAT-CANYONLANDS/NATURAL BRIDGES-
CENTRAL COLORADO RIVER BASIN-
CENTRAL GUNNISON AND UNCOMPAHGRE RIVER BASIN-
CENTRAL YAMPA RIVER BASIN-DEBEQUE TO SILT CORRIDOR-
ELKHEAD AND PARK MOUNTAINS-FLAT TOPS-
FOUR CORNERS/UPPER DOLORES RIVER-
GORE AND ELK MOUNTAINS/CENTRAL MOUNTAINS-GRAND AND BATTLEMENT MESAS-
GRAND VALLEY-LA SAL AND ABAJO MOUNTAINS-LOWER YAMPA RIVER BASIN-
NORTHWEST SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS-PARADOX VALLEY/LOWER DOLORES RIVER-
ROAN AND TAVAPUTS PLATEAUS-SAN JUAN RIVER BASIN-SOUTHEAST UTAH-
SOUTHWEST SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS-TAVAPUTS PLATEAU-
UNCOMPAHGRE PLATEAU AND DALLAS DIVIDE-UPPER GUNNISON RIVER VALLEY-
UPPER YAMPA RIVER BASIN-WEST ELK AND SAWATCH MOUNTAINS-
545 AM MDT THU JUN 23 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN COLORADO AND SOUTHEAST
UTAH.

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

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL REDEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND
WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING HOURS BEFORE DECREASING LATER
TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP EACH
AFTERNOON AND EVENING THROUGH TUESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT.

NL

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.