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Wind Advisory 5, NWS Grand Junction, CO
NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this wind advisory at Mar 12, 2025, 2:47 PM MDT for 7 counties in Colorado; San Juan County, Utah. It took effect at Mar 13, 2025, 11:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 12, 2025, 2:47 PM MDT (20:47 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 13, 2025, 11:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Mar 13, 2025, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Junction, CO
Counties Dolores County, CO, Garfield County, CO, Moffat County, CO, Montezuma County, CO, Rio Blanco County, CO, Routt County, CO, San Miguel County, CO, San Juan County, UT
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 27 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
- 2890 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 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 12, 11:40 AM MDT, 3 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 12, 11:40 AM MDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Grand Junction, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 2:39 AM MDT | Winter Weather Advisory | GJT | Archuleta, Delta, Dolores, Eagle, Garfield, Gunnison and 12 more | 63 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.