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High Wind Warning 3, NWS Grand Junction, CO
NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this high wind warning at Nov 23, 2010, 3:41 AM MST for 10 counties in Colorado; Grand County, San Juan County, Utah. It took effect at Nov 23, 2010, 6:00 PM MST. It was in force for 11 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
- Nov 23, 2010, 3:41 AM MST (10:41 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 23, 2010, 6:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Nov 24, 2010, 4:30 AM MST
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Junction, CO
Counties Archuleta County, CO, Delta County, CO, Dolores County, CO, Garfield County, CO, Gunnison County, CO, La Plata County, CO, Mesa County, CO, Montezuma County, CO, Montrose County, CO, San Miguel County, CO, Grand County, UT, San Juan County, UT
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:43 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
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 00:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1858 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind 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 high wind warning went out at Nov 22, 7:30 PM MST, 8 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 22, 7:30 PM MST, 8 hours 11 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 22, 4:58 AM MST, 22 hours 43 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND JUNCTION CO 458 AM MST MON NOV 22 2010 COZ001>014-017>023-UTZ022>025-027>029-231148- 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- 458 AM MST MON NOV 22 2010 ...BIG WINDS BIG SNOW AND FRIGID TEMPERATURES DEVELOP BY WEDNESDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN UTAH AND WESTERN COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT WIDESPREAD MOUNTAIN AND NORTHERN VALLEY SNOWFALL WILL CONTINUE TODAY THEN DIMINISH TONIGHT. SOUTHWEST TO WEST WINDS WITH MOUNTAIN GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH WILL CAUSE LOCALIZED AREAS OF BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW. WINTER STORM WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT FOR ALL MOUNTAINS AND NORTHERN COLORADO VALLEYS. DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY TUESDAY WILL SEE A BRIEF BREAK BETWEEN STORMS. OTHERWISE STRONG WINDS AND WIND DRIVEN SNOW IN THE MOUNTAINS MAY PRODUCE BLIZZARD LIKE CONDITIONS TUESDAY NIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY. THIS COULD MAKE TRAVEL THROUGH EASTERN UTAH AND WESTERN COLORADO VERY HAZARDOUS OR IMPOSSIBLE TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. STAY UP TO DATE ON THIS WINTER STORM ON OUR WEB PAGE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/GJT. VERY COLD TEMPERATURES WILL SETTLE OVER THE REGION STARTING WEDNESDAY AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE THANKSGIVING WEEKEND. A CHANCE OF SNOW RETURNS TO THE REGION SUNDAY INTO MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED TODAY OR TONIGHT. BUT YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SNOW AMOUNTS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND JUNCTION. JOE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Junction, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 23, 3:20 AM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | GJT | Eagle, Garfield, Gunnison, Moffat, Montrose, Pitkin and 1 more | 38 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.