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Red Flag Warning 18, NWS Grand Junction, CO

June 15, 201413 counties in Colorado

NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this red flag warning at Jun 15, 2014, 4:16 AM MDT for 13 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Jun 16, 2014, 11:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 12 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 15, 2014, 4:16 AM MDT (10:16 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 16, 2014, 11:00 AM MDT
Expired
Jun 16, 2014, 11:00 PM MDT
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Grand Junction, CO

Counties Delta County, CO, Dolores County, CO, Garfield County, CO, Gunnison County, CO, Hinsdale County, CO, La Plata County, CO, Mesa County, CO, Moffat County, CO, Montezuma County, CO, Montrose County, CO, Ouray County, CO, Rio Blanco County, CO, San Miguel County, CO

The radar

The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:16 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 412 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 2014-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 2014-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 31 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
4895 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 4:16 AM MDTFire Weather WatchGJTDelta, Dolores, Garfield, Gunnison, Hinsdale, La Plata and 5 more23 hr
Jun 15, 4:16 AM MDTRed Flag WarningGJTDolores, La Plata, Montezuma, Montrose, San Miguel16 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Colorado, 2014Every red flag warning in 2014

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.