Alert archive / Colorado / Red Flag Warnings in 2006
Red Flag Warning 5, NWS Grand Junction, CO
NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this red flag warning at May 22, 2006, 7:00 AM MDT for 11 counties in Colorado. It took effect at May 22, 2006, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 8 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 2006, 7:00 AM MDT (13:00 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 22, 2006, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- May 22, 2006, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Junction, CO
Counties Dolores County, CO, Eagle County, CO, Garfield County, CO, La Plata County, CO, Mesa County, CO, Moffat County, CO, Montezuma County, CO, Pitkin County, CO, Rio Blanco County, CO, Routt County, CO, San Miguel County, CO
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:00 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, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 55 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -269 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3044 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at May 22, 4:15 AM MDT, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 22, 4:15 AM MDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 22, 6:00 AM MDT, 1 hour before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND JUNCTION CO 600 AM MDT MON MAY 22 2006 COZ001>014-017>023-UTZ022>025-027>029-231200- 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- EASTERN UINTA BASIN-EASTERN UINTA MOUNTAINS- 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- 600 AM MDT MON MAY 22 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY FOR THE VALLEYS OF SOUTHEAST UTAH AND SOUTHWEST COLORADO FROM NOON TO 9 PM... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN UTAH AND WESTERN COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP TODAY AND TONIGHT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL GENERATE STRONG DOWNBURST WINDS WITH SOME GUSTS REACHING 45 MPH. IN ADDITION...SMALL HAIL WILL OCCUR OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND NORTHWEST COLORADO. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH POSSIBLE DAMAGING WIND REACHING 60 MPH OR LARGE HAIL. ALSO...ERRATIC THUNDERSTORM WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND DRY LIGHTNING HAVE PROMPTED THE ISSUANCE OF A RED FLAG WARNING TODAY FOR WESTERN COLORADO AND SOUTHEAST UTAH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO SIGNIFICANT WEATHER IS EXPECTED THROUGH THE THIS PERIOD. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Junction, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 4:31 AM MDT | Wind Advisory | GJT | Archuleta, Delta, Dolores, Eagle, Garfield, Gunnison and 12 more | 16 hr |
| May 22, 1:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GJT | Moffat | 28 min |
| May 22, 2:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GJT | Routt | 41 min |
| May 22, 3:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GJT | Archuleta, Hinsdale, La Plata | 42 min |
| May 22, 4:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GJT | Archuleta, Hinsdale | 50 min |
| May 22, 4:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GJT | Gunnison, Pitkin | 42 min |
| May 22, 3:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GJT | Grand | 38 min |
| May 22, 3:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GJT | Grand, Uintah | 36 min |
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Colorado, 2006Every red flag warning in 2006
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.