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High Wind Warning 1, NWS Grand Junction, CO
NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this high wind warning at Mar 1, 2024, 2:31 PM MST for 11 counties in Colorado; Grand County, San Juan County, Uintah County, Utah. It took effect at Mar 2, 2024, 8:00 AM MST. It was in force for 18 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
- Mar 1, 2024, 2:31 PM MST (21:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 2, 2024, 8:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2024, 2:18 AM MST
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Junction, CO
Counties Delta County, CO, Dolores County, CO, Garfield County, CO, Gunnison County, CO, Mesa County, CO, Moffat County, CO, Montrose County, CO, Ouray 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), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:30 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
Riverton, WY (KRIW), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 450 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
- 1966 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 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 Mar 1, 11:40 AM MST, 2 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 1, 11:40 AM MST, 2 hours 51 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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| Mar 1, 3:03 AM MST | Winter Storm Watch | GJT | Delta, Eagle, Garfield, Gunnison, Mesa, Moffat and 4 more | 12 hr |
| Mar 1, 2:39 PM MST | Winter Storm Warning | GJT | Delta, Eagle, Garfield, Gunnison, Mesa, Moffat and 4 more | 66 hr |
| Mar 1, 2:39 PM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | GJT | Archuleta, Delta, Dolores, Garfield, Gunnison, Hinsdale and 7 more | 56 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.