Alert archive / Colorado / Red Flag Warnings in 2007
Red Flag Warning 5, NWS Grand Junction, CO
NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this red flag warning at Jun 11, 2007, 3:12 AM MDT for 7 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Jun 11, 2007, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 7 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 11, 2007, 3:12 AM MDT (09:12 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 11, 2007, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2007, 7:01 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Junction, CO
Counties Eagle County, CO, Garfield County, CO, Mesa County, CO, Moffat County, CO, Pitkin County, CO, Rio Blanco County, CO, Routt County, CO
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:16 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 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 376 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
- 51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4104 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Colorado, 2007Every red flag warning in 2007
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.