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Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Grand Junction, CO
NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this red flag warning at Mar 24, 2026, 11:03 AM MDT for Moffat County, Rio Blanco County, Colorado. It took effect at Mar 25, 2026, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 8 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 24, 2026, 11:03 AM MDT (17:03 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 25, 2026, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2026, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Junction, CO
Counties Moffat County, CO, Rio Blanco County, CO
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:03 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, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 309 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
- 2914 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 299 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at Mar 24, 5:10 AM MDT, 5 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 24, 5:10 AM MDT, 5 hours 53 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 24, 12:59 AM MDT, 10 hours 4 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Grand Junction CO 1259 AM MDT Tue Mar 24 2026 COZ001>014-017>023-UTZ022>025-027>029-250700- 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- 1259 AM MDT Tue Mar 24 2026 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. There is a low probability for widespread hazardous weather. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. Elevated fire weather concerns return for northwest Colorado Wednesday and Thursday as hot dry and windy conditions develop. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
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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.