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Wind Advisory 3, NWS Grand Junction, CO
NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this wind advisory at Apr 9, 2019, 12:11 PM MDT for 9 counties in Colorado; Grand County, San Juan County, Utah. It took effect at Apr 10, 2019, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 9, 2019, 12:11 PM MDT (18:11 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 10, 2019, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Apr 10, 2019, 9:17 PM MDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Junction, CO
Counties Archuleta County, CO, Dolores County, CO, Garfield County, CO, La Plata County, CO, Moffat County, CO, Montezuma County, CO, Rio Blanco County, CO, Routt County, CO, San Miguel County, CO, Grand County, UT, San Juan County, UT
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:10 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
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 3066 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 275 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Apr 9, 11:09 AM MDT, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 9, 11:09 AM MDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 9, 5:00 AM MDT, 7 hours 11 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Grand Junction CO 500 AM MDT Tue Apr 9 2019 COZ001>014-017>023-UTZ022>025-027>029-101100- 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- 500 AM MDT Tue Apr 9 2019 This hazardous weather outlook is for eastern Utah and western Colorado. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight Warm and windy conditions will occur today ahead of a strong cold front expected to move through the area tonight. Southwest winds will gust in the 30 to 50 mph range in most valley locations, where wind advisories are in effect. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday Widespread showers with isolated thunderstorms are expected Wednesday morning through Thursday morning as a strong Pacific storm system moves through. Expect snow in the mountains and high valleys with rain in the lower elevations. Significant snow accumulations favoring the northern and central mountains. Unsettled weather continues through the weekend as a couple more weaker systems drop in from the northwest, with scattered showers and thunderstorms possible from time to time. Low temperatures will be much colder Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday nights with sub-freezing low temperatures possible in the lower elevations. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will not be needed.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 9, 11:31 AM MDT, 40 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Junction, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 11:47 PM MDT | Winter Storm Watch | GJT | Delta, Eagle, Garfield, Gunnison, Mesa, Moffat and 4 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 9, 3:52 AM MDT | Winter Storm Warning | GJT | Delta, Eagle, Garfield, Mesa, Moffat, Pitkin and 2 more | 53 hr |
| Apr 9, 3:52 AM MDT | Winter Weather Advisory | GJT | Archuleta, Delta, Dolores, Garfield, Gunnison, Hinsdale and 8 more | 53 hr |
| Apr 9, 3:57 AM MDT | Freeze Watch | GJT | Dolores, Garfield, Mesa, Montrose, San Miguel | 35 hr |
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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.