Alert archive / Colorado / Red Flag Warnings in 2014
Red Flag Warning 16, NWS Grand Junction, CO
NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this red flag warning at Jun 13, 2014, 3:15 PM MDT for 5 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Jun 14, 2014, 11:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 10 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
- Jun 13, 2014, 3:15 PM MDT (21:15 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 14, 2014, 11:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2014, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Junction, CO
Counties Dolores County, CO, La Plata County, CO, Montezuma County, CO, Montrose County, CO, San Miguel County, CO
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:18 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
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 338 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
- 117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -289 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1870 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.