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High Wind Warning 7, NWS Grand Junction, CO
NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this high wind warning at Jun 12, 2022, 2:45 PM MDT for 14 counties in Colorado; Grand County, San Juan County, Uintah County, Utah. It took effect at Jun 13, 2022, 10:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 12 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
- Jun 12, 2022, 2:45 PM MDT (20:45 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 13, 2022, 10:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2022, 10:22 PM MDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Junction, CO
Counties Delta County, CO, Dolores County, CO, Eagle County, CO, Garfield County, CO, Gunnison County, CO, La Plata County, CO, Mesa County, CO, Moffat County, CO, Montezuma County, CO, Montrose County, CO, Pitkin 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), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 37 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
- 4315 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind 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 high wind warning went out at Jun 12, 11:36 AM MDT, 3 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 11:36 AM MDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 12, 2:03 PM MDT, 42 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Grand Junction, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 12, 3:40 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | GJT | Delta, Dolores, Garfield, Gunnison, La Plata, Mesa and 6 more | 11 hr |
| Jun 12, 3:40 AM MDT | Wind Advisory | GJT | Garfield, Mesa, Moffat, Rio Blanco, Routt | 17 hr |
| Jun 12, 2:45 PM MDT | Wind Advisory | GJT | Archuleta, Delta, Garfield, Mesa, Montrose, Ouray and 3 more | 32 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.