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Wind Advisory 6, NWS Grand Junction, CO

September 16, 200610 counties in Colorado

NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this wind advisory at Sep 16, 2006, 4:23 AM MDT for 10 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Sep 16, 2006, 6:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 16, 2006, 4:23 AM MDT (10:23 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 16, 2006, 6:00 AM MDT
Expired: Sep 16, 2006, 6:00 PM MDT
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Grand Junction, CO

Counties Delta County, CO, Eagle County, CO, Garfield County, CO, Gunnison County, CO, Mesa County, CO, Moffat County, CO, Montrose County, CO, Pitkin County, CO, Rio Blanco County, CO, Routt County, CO

The radar

The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:26 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 382 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: 6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2909 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 22 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 Sep 15, 8:03 PM MDT, 8 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 15, 8:03 PM MDT, 8 hours 20 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 15, 8:00 PM MDT, 8 hours 23 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
Sep 16, 2:53 PM MDT	Freeze Warning	GJT	Archuleta, Delta, Dolores, Eagle, Garfield, Gunnison and 9 more	16 hr

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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.