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Wind Advisory 3, NWS Grand Junction, CO
NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this wind advisory at Mar 13, 2024, 1:50 PM MDT for Garfield County, Moffat County, Rio Blanco County, Colorado; Uintah County, Utah. It took effect at Mar 14, 2024, 9:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 13, 2024, 1:50 PM MDT (19:50 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 14, 2024, 9:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Mar 14, 2024, 9:16 PM MDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Junction, CO
Counties Garfield County, CO, Moffat County, CO, Rio Blanco County, CO, Uintah County, UT
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 301 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 900 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 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 Mar 13, 11:58 AM MDT, 1 hour 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 13, 11:58 AM MDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Grand Junction CO 602 AM MDT Wed Mar 13 2024 COZ001>014-017>023-UTZ022>025-027>029-141215- 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- 602 AM MDT Wed Mar 13 2024 This hazardous weather outlook is for eastern Utah and western Colorado. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight A passing frontal boundary will bring valley rain and mountain snow showers to the region today and tonight. Winter Weather Advisories have been issued for most Colorado mountains for 6 to 12 inches of snow. A Winter Storm Warning has been issued for the eastern Uintas this evening through tomorrow. Travel will remain difficult across northeast Utah. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday Unsettled weather continues through the end of the week as an area of slow moving/stationary low pressure forms and sets up around the Four Corners region. Winter Storm Warnings and Winter Weather advisories begin Thursday for the mountains of southeast Utah and southwest Colorado. 1 to 2 feet of new snow are likely on the mountains by Saturday morning. Lingering moisture persists through the weekend and beyond, as models are slow to eject the low pressure onto the Plains. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will not be needed.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 13, 9:48 AM MDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Junction, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 3:22 AM MDT | Winter Storm Warning | GJT | Archuleta, Dolores, Hinsdale, La Plata, Montezuma, San Juan and 1 more | 3 days |
| Mar 13, 3:22 AM MDT | Winter Weather Advisory | GJT | Delta, Gunnison, Hinsdale, Mesa, Montrose, Ouray and 1 more | 59 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.