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Wind Advisory 4, NWS Grand Junction, CO

April 13, 201310 counties in Colorado

NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this wind advisory at Apr 13, 2013, 6:12 AM MDT for 10 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Apr 13, 2013, 3:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 13, 2013, 6:12 AM MDT (12:12 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 13, 2013, 3:00 PM MDT
Expired
Apr 13, 2013, 9:00 PM MDT
In force
6 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

The radar

The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:15 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 382 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2013-04-13Temperature 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2013-04-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 134 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1669 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
134 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
148 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Apr 13, 4:40 AM MDT, 1 hour 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 13, 4:40 AM MDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
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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.