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Wind Advisory 8, NWS Grand Junction, CO

June 27, 202011 counties in Colorado; Grand County, San Juan County, Uintah County, Utah

NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this wind advisory at Jun 27, 2020, 2:22 PM MDT for 11 counties in Colorado; Grand County, San Juan County, Uintah County, Utah. It took effect at Jun 28, 2020, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 30 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 27, 2020, 2:22 PM MDT (20:22 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 28, 2020, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired
Jun 29, 2020, 5:34 PM MDT
In force
30 hr
Issued by
NWS Grand Junction, CO

Counties Delta County, CO, Dolores County, CO, Garfield County, CO, Gunnison County, CO, Mesa County, CO, Moffat County, CO, Montrose County, CO, Ouray County, CO, Rio Blanco County, CO, Routt County, CO, San Miguel County, CO, Grand County, UT, San Juan County, UT, Uintah County, UT

The radar

The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:24 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 447 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2020-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2020-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -14 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2646 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Jun 27, 11:42 AM MDT, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 11:42 AM MDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Grand Junction, CO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 6:46 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGJTMesa29 min
Jun 27, 2:22 PM MDTFire Weather WatchGJTDelta, Garfield, Mesa, Montrose, Ouray24 hr
Jun 27, 2:22 PM MDTRed Flag WarningGJTDelta, Dolores, Garfield, La Plata, Mesa, Montezuma and 3 more55 hr
Jun 27, 4:55 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGJTDaggett35 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.