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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Grand Junction, CO
NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 26, 2022, 3:15 PM MDT for Grand County, San Juan County, Utah. It was in force for 3 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 26, 2022, 3:15 PM MDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 2022, 6:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Junction, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Damage threat
- Considerable
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Grand County, UT, San Juan County, UT
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:15 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -228 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1907 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Jul 25, 5:45 PM MDT, 21 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 5:45 PM MDT, 21 hours 30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 12:20 PM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | GJT | Eagle, Garfield, Moffat, Pitkin, Rio Blanco, Routt | 4 hr |
| Jul 26, 3:20 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GJT | Montrose | 115 min |
| Jul 26, 3:34 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GJT | Montrose | 116 min |
| Jul 26, 4:14 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GJT | 31 min | |
| Jul 26, 3:42 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GJT | Grand | 2 hr |
| Jul 26, 4:34 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GJT | San Juan | 3 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.