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Flash Flood Warning 36, NWS Grand Junction, CO

September 9, 2013San Juan County, Utah

NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this flash flood warning at Sep 9, 2013, 10:26 AM MDT for San Juan County, Utah. It was in force for 3 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
Sep 9, 2013, 10:26 AM MDT (16:26 UTC)
Expired
Sep 9, 2013, 1:30 PM MDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Grand Junction, CO
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County San Juan County, UT

The radar

The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 212 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:27 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 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 202 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, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 2013-09-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 316 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 2013-09-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 41 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
316 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
930 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
165 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.3

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Sep 9, 9:43 AM MDT, 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 9, 9:43 AM MDT, 43 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 9, 4:55 AM MDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND JUNCTION CO
455 AM MDT MON SEP 9 2013

COZ001>014-017>023-UTZ022>025-027>029-101200-
LOWER YAMPA RIVER BASIN-CENTRAL YAMPA RIVER BASIN-
ROAN AND TAVAPUTS PLATEAUS-ELKHEAD AND PARK MOUNTAINS-
UPPER YAMPA RIVER BASIN-GRAND VALLEY-DEBEQUE TO SILT CORRIDOR-
CENTRAL COLORADO RIVER BASIN-GRAND AND BATTLEMENT MESAS-
GORE AND ELK MOUNTAINS/CENTRAL MOUNTAIN VALLEYS-
CENTRAL GUNNISON AND UNCOMPAHGRE RIVER BASIN-
WEST ELK AND SAWATCH MOUNTAINS-FLATTOPS-
UPPER GUNNISON RIVER VALLEY-UNCOMPAHGRE PLATEAU AND DALLAS DIVIDE-
NORTHWEST SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS-SOUTHWEST SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS-
PARADOX VALLEY/LOWER DOLORES RIVER-
FOUR CORNERS/UPPER DOLORES RIVER-ANIMAS RIVER BASIN-
SAN JUAN RIVER BASIN-SOUTHEAST UTAH-EASTERN UINTA MOUNTAINS-
EASTERN UINTA BASIN-TAVAPUTS PLATEAU-ARCHES/GRAND FLAT-
LA SAL AND ABAJO MOUNTAINS-CANYONLANDS/NATURAL BRIDGES-
455 AM MDT MON SEP 9 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN UTAH AND WESTERN
COLORADO.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS EASTERN
UTAH AND WESTERN COLORADO THROUGH TONIGHT. HEAVY RAIN WILL BE
POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY ACROSS SOUTHEAST UTAH AND THE LOWER VALLEYS
OF EXTREME SOUTHWEST COLORADO...WHERE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH WILL BE
IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING. THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR FLASH
FLOODING IN THESE AREAS...ESPECIALLY IN NARROW SLOT CANYONS...NEAR
STEEP TERRAIN AND OVER BURN SCARS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

EXPECT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD FAVORING
HIGHER TERRAIN. A PERSISTENT INFLUX OF MONSOON MOISTURE POSES THE
THREAT OF LOCALIZED RUNOFF PROBLEMS EACH DAY THROUGH MIDWEEK.
SOME DRYING CAN BE EXPECTED FRIDAY...ALTHOUGH ANOTHER SURGE OF
MOISTURE APPEARS POISED TO BACK THROUGH THE REGION OVER THE
WEEKEND.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 9, 5:44 AM MDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND JUNCTION CO
544 AM MDT MON SEP 09 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0521 AM     HEAVY RAIN       ROOSEVELT               40.30N 109.97W
09/09/2013  M0.97 INCH       UINTAH             UT   BROADCAST MEDIA

            OVERNIGHT RAINFALL

&&

EVENT NUMBER GJT1301473

DC

The office that day

Everything else NWS Grand Junction, CO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 9, 4:20 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGJTGarfield3 hr
Sep 9, 5:03 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGJTMesa3 hr
Sep 9, 10:15 AM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGJTGrand22 hr
Sep 9, 1:31 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGJTSan Juan3 hr
Sep 9, 4:28 PM MDTAreal Flood WarningGJTSan Juan24 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Utah, 2013Every flash flood warning in 2013

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.