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Wind Advisory 4, NWS Grand Junction, CO
NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this wind advisory at Apr 4, 2022, 3:11 AM MDT for 14 counties in Colorado; Daggett County, Grand County, Uintah County, Utah. It took effect at Apr 5, 2022, 10:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 4, 2022, 3:11 AM MDT (09:11 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 5, 2022, 10:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Apr 5, 2022, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 11 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, Daggett County, UT, Grand County, UT, Uintah County, UT
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 8 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:10 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 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 430 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
- 2089 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Apr 3, 11:41 PM MDT, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 11:41 PM MDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Grand Junction, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 3:11 AM MDT | Wind Advisory | GJT | Garfield, Moffat, Rio Blanco, Routt | 16 hr |
| Apr 4, 3:19 AM MDT | Winter Weather Advisory | GJT | Delta, Eagle, Garfield, Gunnison, Moffat, Montrose and 2 more | 45 hr |
| Apr 4, 2:02 PM MDT | Freeze Watch | GJT | Garfield, Mesa | 13 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.