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Red Flag Warning 16, NWS Grand Junction, CO

July 15, 2016Moffat County, Colorado

NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this red flag warning at Jul 15, 2016, 3:45 AM MDT for Moffat County, Colorado. It took effect at Jul 15, 2016, 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 15, 2016, 3:45 AM MDT (09:45 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 15, 2016, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired
Jul 15, 2016, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
8 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 09:50 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

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 312 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, Salt Lake City I, UT at 00:00Z on 2016-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 29 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Salt Lake City I, UT at 00:00Z on 2016-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -35 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
29 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-151 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3715 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
55 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 15, 3:45 AM MDTFire Weather WatchGJTArchuleta, Delta, Dolores, Eagle, Garfield, Gunnison and 11 more11 hr
Jul 15, 2:58 PM MDTFire Weather WatchGJTArchuleta, Delta, Dolores, Eagle, Garfield, Gunnison and 11 more24 hr
Jul 15, 2:58 PM MDTRed Flag WarningGJTArchuleta, Delta, Dolores, Eagle, Garfield, Gunnison and 12 more30 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Colorado, 2016Every red flag warning in 2016

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.