Alert archive / Colorado / Red Flag Warnings in 2007
Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Grand Junction, CO
NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this red flag warning at Jun 4, 2007, 2:57 PM MDT for 11 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Jun 5, 2007, 1:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 9 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
- Jun 4, 2007, 2:57 PM MDT (20:57 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 5, 2007, 1:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2007, 10:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 9 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 20:57 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 412 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1747 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 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 Jun 4, 4:18 AM MDT, 10 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 4:18 AM MDT, 10 hours 39 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Grand Junction, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 2:57 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | GJT | Dolores, La Plata, Montezuma, San Miguel | 40 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.