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High Wind Warning 3, NWS Grand Junction, CO
NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this high wind warning at May 4, 2024, 3:23 PM MDT for 10 counties in Colorado; Grand County, San Juan County, Uintah County, Utah. It took effect at May 5, 2024, 6:00 AM MDT. 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
- May 4, 2024, 3:23 PM MDT (21:23 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 5, 2024, 6:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- May 6, 2024, 12:00 AM MDT
- 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, San Miguel County, CO, Grand County, UT, San Juan County, UT, Uintah County, UT
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:27 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 26 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
- 2180 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 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 May 4, 11:37 AM MDT, 3 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 4, 11:37 AM MDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 4, 3:35 AM MDT, 11 hours 48 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Grand Junction CO 335 AM MDT Sat May 4 2024 COZ001>014-017>023-UTZ022>025-027>029-050945- Lower Yampa River Basin-Central Yampa River Basin- Roan and Tavaputs Plateaus-Elkhead and Park Mountains- Upper Yampa River Basin-Grand Valley-Debeque to Silt Corridor- Central Colorado River Basin-Grand and Battlement Mesas- Gore and Elk Mountains/Central Mountain Valleys- Central Gunnison and Uncompahgre River Basin- West Elk and Sawatch Mountains-Flat Tops- Upper Gunnison River Valley-Uncompahgre Plateau and Dallas Divide- Northwest San Juan Mountains-Southwest San Juan Mountains- Paradox Valley/Lower Dolores River- Four Corners/Upper Dolores River-Animas River Basin- San Juan River Basin-Southeast Utah-Eastern Uinta Mountains- Eastern Uinta Basin-Tavaputs Plateau-Arches/Grand Flat- La Sal and Abajo Mountains-Canyonlands/Natural Bridges- 335 AM MDT Sat May 4 2024 This hazardous weather outlook is for eastern Utah and western Colorado. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight A few scattered showers and storms are possible this afternoon and evening along the central and southern Continental Divide mountains. Gusty winds and lightning are the main risks. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday Very strong winds are likely on Sunday ahead of an approaching strong low pressure system. Max gusts upwards of 65 mph are forecast in the valleys with gusts up to 80 mph forecast in the mountains. A High Wind Watch remains in effect from Sunday morning through Sunday evening. The strong low pressure system and its attendant cold front will bring widespread precipitation and much cooler temperatures as it moves through Sunday night into Monday. There is the increasing potential for accumulating snow in the mountains, particularly in the central and northern Colorado mountains where 6 inches or more of snow is possible. In the wake of the storm, cool and unsettled weather likely persists through most of next week. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will not be needed.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Junction, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 3:23 PM MDT | Wind Advisory | GJT | Dolores, Eagle, Garfield, La Plata, Mesa, Moffat and 5 more | 33 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.