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Red Flag Warning 25, NWS Grand Junction, CO

July 20, 2014Moffat County, Rio Blanco County, Colorado; 6 counties in Utah

NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this red flag warning at Jul 20, 2014, 3:00 PM MDT for Moffat County, Rio Blanco County, Colorado; 6 counties in Utah. It took effect at Jul 21, 2014, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 8 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
Jul 20, 2014, 3:00 PM MDT (21:00 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 21, 2014, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired
Jul 21, 2014, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Grand Junction, CO

Counties Moffat County, CO, Rio Blanco County, CO, Carbon County, UT, Duchesne County, UT, Emery County, UT, Grand County, UT, Uintah County, UT, Wasatch County, UT

The radar

The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:59 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

Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 139 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, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 2014-07-20Temperature 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 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 2014-07-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -7 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
3409 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
51 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
Jul 20, 2:08 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGJTHinsdale22 min
Jul 20, 2:38 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGJTHinsdale112 min

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Utah, 2014Red 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.