Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Grand Junction, CO
NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 2005, 1:04 PM MDT for Moffat County, Colorado. It was in force for 56 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 25, 2005, 1:04 PM MDT (19:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 2005, 2:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Junction, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Moffat County, CO
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 173 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:08 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 167 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 230 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1234 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 25, 8:45 AM MDT, 4 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 8:45 AM MDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 25, 9:00 AM MDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND JUNCTION CO 900 AM MDT MON JUL 25 2005 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT FOR SOUTHEAST UTAH AND SOUTHWEST COLORADO... UTZ023>025-027-261200- ARCHES/GRAND FLAT-EASTERN UINTA BASIN-EASTERN UINTA MOUNTAINS- TAVAPUTS PLATEAU- 900 AM MDT MON JUL 25 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST UTAH. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...ESPECIALLY AT HIGHER ELEVATIONS...WILL OCCUR ACROSS NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL UTAH TODAY AND THIS EVENING. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL IS POSSIBLE AND MAY CAUSE NORMALLY DRY CREEK BEDS...WASHES...AND SLOT CANYONS TO QUICKLY FILL WITH WATER. ADDITIONALLY...GUSTY WINDS AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND SMALL HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. GUSTY WINDS...CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN MAY OCCUR WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT....BUT SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT RAINFALL AMOUNTS AND SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND JUNCTION. COZ001>014-017-261200- CENTRAL COLORADO RIVER BASIN- CENTRAL GUNNISON AND UNCOMPAHGRE RIVER BASIN- CENTRAL YAMPA RIVER BASIN-DEBEQUE TO SILT CORRIDOR- ELKHEAD AND PARK MOUNTAINS-FLAT TOPS- GORE AND ELK MOUNTAINS/CENTRAL MOUNTAINS-GRAND AND BATTLEMENT MESAS- GRAND VALLEY-LOWER YAMPA RIVER BASIN-ROAN AND TAVAPUTS PLATEAUS- UNCOMPAHGRE PLATEAU AND DALLAS DIVIDE-UPPER GUNNISON RIVER VALLEY- UPPER YAMPA RIVER BASIN-WEST ELK AND SAWATCH MOUNTAINS- 900 AM MDT MON JUL 25 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL COLORADO TODAY AND THIS EVENING...WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE. MORE NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER THE WEST CENTRAL MOUNTAINS AND THE UNCOMPAHGRE PLATEAU. HEAVY RAIN MAY CAUSE SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...AND LOW LYING AREAS TO QUICKLY FILL WITH WATER. ADDITIONALLY...GUSTY WINDS...CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND SMALL HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR TUESDAY...AND AGAIN ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY...ESPECIALLY OVER THE MOUNTAINS. GUSTY WINDS...CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN MAY OCCUR WITH THE STORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT....BUT SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT RAINFALL AMOUNTS AND SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND JUNCTION. COZ018>023-UTZ022-028-029-261200- ANIMAS RIVER BASIN-CANYONLANDS/NATURAL BRIDGES- FOUR CORNERS/UPPER DOLORES RIVER-LA SAL AND ABAJO MOUNTAINS- NORTHWEST SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS-PARADOX VALLEY/LOWER DOLORES RIVER- SAN JUAN RIVER BASIN-SOUTHEAST UTAH-SOUTHWEST SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS- 900 AM MDT MON JUL 25 2005 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWEST COLORADO AND SOUTHEAST UTAH. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHWEST COLORADO AND SOUTHEAST TODAY AND THIS EVENING. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED WITH SOME STORMS...CAUSING SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...AND LOW LYING AREAS TO QUICKLY FILL WITH WATER. ADDITIONALLY...GUSTY WINDS...CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND SMALL HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR TUESDAY...AND AGAIN ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY...ESPECIALLY OVER THE MOUNTAINS. GUSTY WINDS...CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN MAY OCCUR WITH THE STORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT....BUT SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT RAINFALL AMOUNTS AND SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND JUNCTION. TAL/ELH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Junction, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 2:48 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GJT | Garfield | 3 hr |
| Jul 25, 3:05 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GJT | Rio Blanco | 3 hr |
| Jul 25, 3:51 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GJT | Garfield, Rio Blanco | 3 hr |
| Jul 25, 5:45 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GJT | Garfield | 3 hr |
| Jul 25, 5:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GJT | Mesa | 52 min |
| Jul 25, 1:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GJT | Uintah | 63 min |
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.