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Wind Advisory 11, NWS Grand Junction, CO

June 16, 2014Dolores County, Montezuma County, San Miguel County, Colorado; Grand County, San Juan County, Utah

NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this wind advisory at Jun 16, 2014, 3:42 AM MDT for Dolores County, Montezuma County, San Miguel County, Colorado; Grand County, San Juan County, Utah. It took effect at Jun 16, 2014, 11:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 16, 2014, 3:42 AM MDT (09:42 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 Dolores County, CO, Montezuma County, CO, San Miguel County, CO, Grand County, UT, San Juan County, UT

The radar

The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:46 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

Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 393 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, Flgstf/Belemont, AZ at 00:00Z on 2014-06-16Temperature 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, Flgstf/Belemont, AZ at 00:00Z on 2014-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 112 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
3375 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
172 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 Jun 16, 3:31 AM MDT, 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 3:31 AM MDT, 11 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 16, 1:38 AM MDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 16, 3:43 AM MDTRed Flag WarningGJTDelta, Dolores, Garfield, Gunnison, Hinsdale, La Plata and 7 more41 hr
Jun 16, 2:54 PM MDTFire Weather WatchGJTDolores, La Plata, Montezuma, San Miguel24 hr
Jun 16, 3:18 PM MDTWind AdvisoryGJTDelta, Dolores, Eagle, Garfield, Gunnison, La Plata and 8 more30 hr

Nearby

Wind Advisories in Colorado, 2014Wind Advisories in Utah, 2014Every wind advisory 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.