Alert archive / Colorado / Red Flag Warnings in 2008
Red Flag Warning 16, NWS Grand Junction, CO
NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this red flag warning at Jun 9, 2008, 2:40 PM MDT for 8 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Jun 10, 2008, 11:00 AM 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 9, 2008, 2:40 PM MDT (20:40 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 10, 2008, 11:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2008, 8:00 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, Montezuma County, CO, Pitkin County, CO, San Miguel County, CO
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:41 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
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 399 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
- 4160 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 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 9, 4:20 AM MDT, 10 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 4:20 AM MDT, 10 hours 20 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 9, 5:45 AM MDT, 8 hours 55 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND JUNCTION CO 545 AM MDT MON JUN 9 2008 COZ001>014-017>023-UTZ022>025-027>029-101200- ANIMAS RIVER BASIN-ARCHES/GRAND FLAT-CANYONLANDS/NATURAL BRIDGES- CENTRAL COLORADO RIVER BASIN- CENTRAL GUNNISON AND UNCOMPAHGRE RIVER BASIN- CENTRAL YAMPA RIVER BASIN-DEBEQUE TO SILT CORRIDOR- EASTERN UINTA BASIN-EASTERN UINTA MOUNTAINS- ELKHEAD AND PARK MOUNTAINS-FLAT TOPS- FOUR CORNERS/UPPER DOLORES RIVER- GORE AND ELK MOUNTAINS/CENTRAL MOUNTAINS-GRAND AND BATTLEMENT MESAS- GRAND VALLEY-LA SAL AND ABAJO MOUNTAINS-LOWER YAMPA RIVER BASIN- NORTHWEST SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS-PARADOX VALLEY/LOWER DOLORES RIVER- ROAN AND TAVAPUTS PLATEAUS-SAN JUAN RIVER BASIN-SOUTHEAST UTAH- SOUTHWEST SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS-TAVAPUTS PLATEAU- UNCOMPAHGRE PLATEAU AND DALLAS DIVIDE-UPPER GUNNISON RIVER VALLEY- UPPER YAMPA RIVER BASIN-WEST ELK AND SAWATCH MOUNTAINS- 545 AM MDT MON JUN 9 2008 ...FLOOD ADVISORIES IN EFFECT FOR A NUMBER OF RIVER POINTS ACROSS WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST COLORADO AND NORTHEAST UTAH... ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH LATE TUESDAY MORNING THROUGH EARLY TUESDAY EVENING FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL COLORADO BELOW 7000 FEET... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN UTAH AND WESTERN COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT RIVERS AND STREAMS WILL CONTINUE TO RUN HIGH RESULTING IN SWIFT AND DANGEROUS CURRENTS. SOME RIVERS AND STREAMS WILL BE ABOVE BANKFULL. FOR MORE DETAILED INFORMATION ON RIVER LEVELS IN THE REGION...PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WEATHER.GOV/GJT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY STRONG GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL CREATE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ACROSS PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL COLORADO TUESDAY. GUSTY WEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE WEDNESDAY ACROSS SOUTHEAST UTAH AND SOUTHWEST COLORADO. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHERN MOUNTAINS TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY. SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS. RIVERS AND STREAMS WILL CONTINUE TO RUN HIGH RESULTING IN SWIFT AND DANGEROUS CURRENTS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED TODAY OR TONIGHT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Junction, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 6:02 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | GJT | Garfield, Mesa | 9 hr |
Nearby
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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.