Alert archive / Colorado / Winter Storm Warnings in 2014
Winter Storm Warning 2, NWS Grand Junction, CO
NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this winter storm warning at Jan 9, 2014, 3:33 AM MST for 5 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Jan 9, 2014, 3:00 PM MST. It was in force for 43 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
- Jan 9, 2014, 3:33 AM MST (10:33 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 9, 2014, 3:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Jan 11, 2014, 9:34 AM MST
- In force
- 43 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Junction, CO
Counties Eagle County, CO, Garfield County, CO, Moffat County, CO, Rio Blanco County, CO, Routt County, CO
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:33 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
Riverton, WY (KRIW), launched 00:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 341 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
- 1506 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm warning 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 winter storm warning went out at Jan 8, 11:08 PM MST, 4 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 8, 11:08 PM MST, 4 hours 25 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 9, 3:25 AM MST, 8 minutes before
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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Junction, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 9, 3:33 AM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | GJT | Delta, Eagle, Garfield, Gunnison, Hinsdale, Mesa and 7 more | 50 hr |
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.