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Wind Advisory 8, NWS Grand Junction, CO
NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this wind advisory at Jun 12, 2013, 3:02 PM MDT for 5 counties in Colorado; Grand County, San Juan County, Uintah County, Utah. It took effect at Jun 13, 2013, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 2013, 3:02 PM MDT (21:02 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 13, 2013, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2013, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Junction, CO
Counties Garfield County, CO, Mesa County, CO, Moffat County, CO, Rio Blanco County, CO, Routt County, CO, Grand County, UT, San Juan County, UT, Uintah County, UT
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:03 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
Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 313 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
- 3033 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Junction, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 5:04 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | GJT | Delta, Dolores, Garfield, Gunnison, Hinsdale, La Plata and 7 more | 39 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.