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Wind Advisory 9, NWS Grand Junction, CO

April 27, 20238 counties in Colorado; Grand County, Uintah County, Utah

NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this wind advisory at Apr 27, 2023, 1:56 AM MDT for 8 counties in Colorado; Grand County, Uintah County, Utah. It took effect at Apr 27, 2023, 2:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 19 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 27, 2023, 1:56 AM MDT (07:56 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 27, 2023, 2:00 PM MDT
Expired
Apr 28, 2023, 9:00 AM MDT
In force
19 hr
Issued by
NWS Grand Junction, CO

Counties Dolores County, CO, Garfield County, CO, Mesa County, CO, Moffat County, CO, Montezuma County, CO, Rio Blanco County, CO, Routt County, CO, San Miguel County, CO, Grand County, UT, Uintah County, UT

The radar

The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:59 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

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 344 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, Salt Lake City I, UT at 00:00Z on 2023-04-27Temperature 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, Salt Lake City I, UT at 00:00Z on 2023-04-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 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
2053 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.