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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Grand Junction, CO

August 4, 2022Montrose County, Colorado

NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 4, 2022, 3:06 PM MDT for Montrose County, Colorado. 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
Aug 4, 2022, 3:06 PM MDT (21:06 UTC)
Expired
Aug 4, 2022, 6:15 PM MDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Grand Junction, CO
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Montrose County, CO

The radar

The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:09 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 83 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, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 2022-08-04Temperature 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 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 2022-08-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 6 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2526 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
37 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 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 Aug 3, 5:35 PM MDT, 21 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 5:35 PM MDT, 21 hours 31 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 6:11 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGJTArchuleta96 min
Aug 3, 6:54 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGJTSan Miguel3 hr
Aug 4, 1:34 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGJTSan Miguel19 min
Aug 4, 1:53 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGJTSan Miguel3 hr
Aug 4, 2:45 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGJTSan Miguel2 hr
Aug 4, 3:34 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGJTDolores, San Miguel3 hr
Aug 4, 4:11 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGJTArchuleta, Hinsdale, La Plata3 hr
Aug 4, 4:37 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGJTDolores, Montezuma3 hr

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.