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Wind Advisory 1, NWS Grand Junction, CO
NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this wind advisory at Mar 17, 2013, 3:34 AM MDT for 4 counties in Colorado; Uintah County, Utah. It took effect at Mar 17, 2013, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 17, 2013, 3:34 AM MDT (09:34 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 17, 2013, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2013, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Junction, CO
Counties Garfield County, CO, Moffat County, CO, Rio Blanco County, CO, Routt County, CO, Uintah County, UT
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:37 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
Riverton, WY (KRIW), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 324 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
- 2468 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Mar 16, 3:10 PM MDT, 12 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 16, 3:10 PM MDT, 12 hours 24 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 16, 5:42 AM MDT, 21 hours 52 minutes before
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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Junction, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 7:05 PM MDT | Winter Weather Advisory | GJT | Delta, Eagle, Garfield, Gunnison, Mesa, Moffat and 4 more | 23 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.