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Winter Storm Warning 13, NWS Grand Junction, CO
NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this winter storm warning at Dec 26, 2022, 1:56 PM MST for 14 counties in Colorado; Grand County, San Juan County, Utah. It took effect at Dec 27, 2022, 1:00 PM MST. It was in force for 40 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
- Dec 26, 2022, 1:56 PM MST (20:56 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 27, 2022, 1:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Dec 29, 2022, 5:00 AM MST
- In force
- 40 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Junction, CO
Counties Archuleta County, CO, Delta County, CO, Dolores County, CO, Garfield County, CO, Hinsdale County, CO, La Plata County, CO, Mesa County, CO, Moffat County, CO, Montezuma County, CO, Montrose County, CO, Ouray County, CO, Routt County, CO, San Juan County, CO, San Miguel County, CO, Grand County, UT, San Juan County, UT
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:55 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 1293 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Dec 26, 10:55 AM MST, 3 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 26, 10:55 AM MST, 3 hours 1 minute 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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| Dec 26, 3:06 AM MST | Winter Storm Watch | GJT | Archuleta, Delta, Dolores, Garfield, Gunnison, Hinsdale and 7 more | 11 hr |
| Dec 26, 1:56 PM MST | Winter Storm Watch | GJT | Archuleta, Dolores, La Plata, Montezuma, San Miguel | 12 hr |
| Dec 26, 1:56 PM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | GJT | Delta, Dolores, Eagle, Garfield, Gunnison, Hinsdale and 8 more | 63 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.