Alert archive / Colorado / Red Flag Warnings in 2018
Red Flag Warning 23, NWS Grand Junction, CO
NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this red flag warning at Jun 23, 2018, 2:04 PM MDT for 7 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Jun 24, 2018, 11:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 9 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 23, 2018, 2:04 PM MDT (20:04 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 24, 2018, 11:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2018, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Junction, CO
Counties Archuleta County, CO, Dolores County, CO, Hinsdale County, CO, La Plata County, CO, Montezuma County, CO, San Juan County, CO, San Miguel County, CO
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 165 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 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
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 306 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
- 4425 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at Jun 23, 10:38 AM MDT, 3 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 10:38 AM MDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 23, 1:31 PM MDT, 33 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Grand Junction CO 131 PM MDT Sat Jun 23 2018 COZ001>014-017>023-UTZ022>025-027>029-241945- Lower Yampa River Basin-Central Yampa River Basin- Roan and Tavaputs Plateaus-Elkhead and Park Mountains- Upper Yampa River Basin-Grand Valley-Debeque to Silt Corridor- Central Colorado River Basin-Grand and Battlement Mesas- Gore and Elk Mountains/Central Mountain Valleys- Central Gunnison and Uncompahgre River Basin- West Elk and Sawatch Mountains-Flat Tops- Upper Gunnison River Valley-Uncompahgre Plateau and Dallas Divide- Northwest San Juan Mountains-Southwest San Juan Mountains- Paradox Valley/Lower Dolores River- Four Corners/Upper Dolores River-Animas River Basin- San Juan River Basin-Southeast Utah-Eastern Uinta Mountains- Eastern Uinta Basin-Tavaputs Plateau-Arches/Grand Flat- La Sal and Abajo Mountains-Canyonlands/Natural Bridges- 131 PM MDT Sat Jun 23 2018 This hazardous weather outlook is for eastern Utah and western Colorado. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight Breezy winds and low relative humidity will continue producing critical fire weather conditions for much of eastern Utah and western Colorado today. A Red Flag Warning remains in effect until 9 PM MDT. In addition, isolated thunderstorms are possible over the northern and central mountains from late morning through the early evening. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday Critical fire weather conditions are expected again from late Sunday morning through mid-evening across southwest Colorado. A Red Flag Warning has been issued for southwest Colorado, including Colorado fire zones 207 and 295. Scattered thunderstorms are possible again all day Sunday over the northern and central Colorado mountains. Monday will be quiet with cooler temperatures, but the mercury will be rising to well above normal levels at midweek and critical fire weather conditions become possible once again Thursday through Saturday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will not be needed.
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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.