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Wind Advisory 11, NWS Grand Junction, CO
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.
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
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.
- 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
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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Everything else NWS Grand Junction, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 3:43 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | GJT | Delta, Dolores, Garfield, Gunnison, Hinsdale, La Plata and 7 more | 41 hr |
| Jun 16, 2:54 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | GJT | Dolores, La Plata, Montezuma, San Miguel | 24 hr |
| Jun 16, 3:18 PM MDT | Wind Advisory | GJT | Delta, Dolores, Eagle, Garfield, Gunnison, La Plata and 8 more | 30 hr |
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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.