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Wind Advisory 4, NWS Grand Junction, CO

May 22, 200618 counties in Colorado; 4 counties in Utah

NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this wind advisory at May 22, 2006, 4:31 AM MDT for 18 counties in Colorado; 4 counties in Utah. It took effect at May 22, 2006, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 22, 2006, 4:31 AM MDT (10:31 UTC)
In effect from: May 22, 2006, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired: May 22, 2006, 9:00 PM MDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Grand Junction, CO

All 22 counties

Archuleta County, CO, Delta County, CO, Dolores County, CO, Eagle County, CO, Garfield County, CO, Gunnison County, CO, Hinsdale County, CO, La Plata County, CO, Mesa County, CO, Moffat County, CO, Montezuma County, CO, Montrose County, CO, Ouray County, CO, Pitkin County, CO, Rio Blanco County, CO, Routt County, CO, San Juan County, CO, San Miguel County, CO, Daggett County, UT, Grand County, UT, San Juan County, UT, Uintah County, UT

The radar

The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 435 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 145 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 4285 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 23 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 wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at May 22, 4:15 AM MDT, 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 22, 4:15 AM MDT, 16 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 7:00 AM MDT	Red Flag Warning	GJT	Dolores, Eagle, Garfield, La Plata, Mesa, Moffat and 5 more	13 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

Wind Advisories in Colorado, 2006 Wind Advisories in Utah, 2006 Every wind advisory 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.