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Wind Advisory 20, NWS Grand Junction, CO

May 27, 202215 counties in Colorado; Grand County, San Juan County, Uintah County, Utah

NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this wind advisory at May 27, 2022, 1:45 PM MDT for 15 counties in Colorado; Grand County, San Juan County, Uintah County, Utah. It took effect at May 28, 2022, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 27, 2022, 1:45 PM MDT (19:45 UTC)
In effect from
May 28, 2022, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired
May 28, 2022, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Grand Junction, CO

Counties Archuleta County, CO, 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), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 435 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 2022-05-27Temperature 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 2022-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 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
3313 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 1:48 PM MDTFire Weather WatchGJTDolores, La Plata, Montezuma, Montrose, San Miguel25 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.