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Winter Storm Warning 10, NWS Grand Junction, CO

March 15, 201110 counties in Colorado; Daggett County, Uintah County, Utah

NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this winter storm warning at Mar 15, 2011, 3:11 PM MDT for 10 counties in Colorado; Daggett County, Uintah County, Utah. It took effect at Mar 17, 2011, 12:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 30 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
Mar 15, 2011, 3:11 PM MDT (21:11 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 17, 2011, 12:00 AM MDT
Expired
Mar 18, 2011, 6:00 AM MDT
In force
30 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, Daggett County, UT, Uintah County, UT

The radar

The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Riverton, WY (KRIW), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 385 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, Riverton, WY at 12:00Z on 2011-03-15Temperature 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, Riverton, WY at 12:00Z on 2011-03-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 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
1871 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
10 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
Mar 15, 3:57 AM MDTWinter Storm WatchGJTDelta, Eagle, Garfield, Gunnison, Mesa, Moffat and 4 more19 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Colorado, 2011Winter Storm Warnings in Utah, 2011Every winter storm warning in 2011

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.