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Red Flag Warning 6, NWS Grand Junction, CO
NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this red flag warning at Jul 2, 2019, 2:53 PM MDT for Moffat County, Rio Blanco County, Colorado; Grand County, Utah. It took effect at Jul 3, 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
- Jul 2, 2019, 2:53 PM MDT (20:53 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 3, 2019, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2019, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Junction, CO
Counties Moffat County, CO, Rio Blanco County, CO, Grand County, UT
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:54 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 358 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
- 35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -248 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2435 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Junction, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 2:20 PM MDT | River Flood Advisory | GJT | Pitkin | 7 days |
| Jul 2, 4:23 PM MDT | River Flood Advisory | GJT | Eagle, Pitkin | 4 days |
| Jul 2, 3:09 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GJT | Uintah | 51 min |
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.