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Winter Storm Warning 2, NWS Grand Junction, CO

January 18, 200610 counties in Colorado

NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this winter storm warning at Jan 18, 2006, 4:25 AM MST for 10 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Jan 18, 2006, 6:00 AM MST. It was in force for 47 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
Jan 18, 2006, 4:25 AM MST (11:25 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 18, 2006, 6:00 AM MST
Expired
Jan 20, 2006, 4:32 AM MST
In force
47 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 11:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 81 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 00:00Z on 2006-01-18Temperature 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 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 00:00Z on 2006-01-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1916 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 18, 4:25 AM MSTHeavy Snow WarningGJTArchuleta, Moffat, Rio Blanco, Routt48 hr
Jan 18, 4:25 AM MSTSnow AdvisoryGJTArchuleta, Delta, Dolores, Eagle, Garfield, Gunnison and 12 more48 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Colorado, 2006Every winter storm 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.