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Wind Advisory 2, NWS Grand Junction, CO

February 6, 20256 counties in Colorado; Uintah County, Utah

NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this wind advisory at Feb 6, 2025, 2:01 PM MST for 6 counties in Colorado; Uintah County, Utah. It took effect at Feb 7, 2025, 10:00 AM MST. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 6, 2025, 2:01 PM MST (21:01 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 7, 2025, 10:00 AM MST
Expired
Feb 7, 2025, 6:00 PM MST
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Grand Junction, CO

Counties Eagle County, CO, Garfield County, CO, Moffat County, CO, Pitkin County, CO, Rio Blanco County, CO, Routt County, CO, Uintah County, UT

The radar

The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:04 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 351 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, Riverton, WY at 12:00Z on 2025-02-06Temperature 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, Riverton, WY at 12:00Z on 2025-02-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 222 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 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
2878 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
88 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
222 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
466 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Feb 6, 11:04 AM MST, 2 hours 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 6, 11:04 AM MST, 2 hours 57 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 6, 2:59 AM MST, 11 hours 2 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Grand Junction CO
259 AM MST Thu Feb 6 2025

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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-
259 AM MST Thu Feb 6 2025

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northwest Colorado, southwest
Colorado, west central Colorado, east central Utah, northeast Utah
and southeast Utah.

.DAY ONE...Today and tonight.

Hazardous weather is not expected at this time.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday.

Colder air arriving Friday will lower snow levels as a more
significant snow storm arrives Friday afternoon through Saturday. The
combination of strong winds and this snow will bring hazardous travel
conditions to the northern and central mountains. Winds Friday will
gust 30 to 40 mph in the valleys and 40 to 50 mph in the mountains
lasting into the evening. Isolated to scattered light snow showers
will continue each afternoon and evening in the mountains Sunday
through mid week.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not expected at this time.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Grand Junction, CO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 6, 2:17 PM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryGJTEagle, Garfield, Moffat, Pitkin, Rio Blanco, Routt41 hr

Nearby

Wind Advisories in Colorado, 2025Wind Advisories in Utah, 2025Every wind advisory in 2025

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.