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Red Flag Warning 5, NWS Grand Junction, CO
NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this red flag warning at Jun 27, 2019, 2:40 PM MDT for Montrose County, San Miguel County, Colorado; Grand County, Utah. It took effect at Jun 28, 2019, 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
- Jun 27, 2019, 2:40 PM MDT (20:40 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 28, 2019, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Jun 28, 2019, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Junction, CO
Counties Montrose County, CO, San Miguel County, CO, Grand County, UT
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:44 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 425 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
- 92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -295 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2342 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 27, 11:48 AM MDT, 2 hours 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 11:48 AM MDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 4:36 AM MDT, 10 hours 4 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Grand Junction CO 436 AM MDT Thu Jun 27 2019 COZ001>014-017>023-UTZ022>025-027>029-281045- 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- 436 AM MDT Thu Jun 27 2019 This hazardous weather outlook is for eastern Utah and western Colorado. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight Red Flag Warnings remain in effect for portions of southeast Utah and southwest Colorado due to dry fuels, low humidity and breezy southwest winds generating gusts to 25 to 30 MPH. Report fire starts to police or fire authorities. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday Dry and windy weather will continue Friday with elevated fire weather concerns continuing. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will not be needed.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Junction, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 2:55 PM MDT | River Flood Advisory | GJT | Eagle | 8 days |
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.