Alert archive / Colorado / Red Flag Warnings in 2016
Red Flag Warning 20, NWS Grand Junction, CO
NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this red flag warning at Aug 10, 2016, 4:30 AM MDT for Moffat County, Colorado. It took effect at Aug 10, 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
- Aug 10, 2016, 4:30 AM MDT (10:30 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 10, 2016, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Aug 10, 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 10:31 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 00:00Z, 10.5 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4095 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.