Alert archive / Colorado / Red Flag Warnings in 2015
Red Flag Warning 12, NWS Grand Junction, CO
NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this red flag warning at Jun 25, 2015, 1:49 PM MDT for Moffat County, Colorado. It took effect at Jun 25, 2015, 2:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 7 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 25, 2015, 1:49 PM MDT (19:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 25, 2015, 2:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2015, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Junction, CO
County Moffat County, CO
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 173 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:52 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
Riverton, WY (KRIW), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 273 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
- 1142 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -153 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1202 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
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.