Thunderstorm Wind, Garfield
- When
- August 15, 8:41 PM MST to 8:42 PM MST
- Where
- Garfield County, 5 mi NW of Glenwood Spgs
- Measured
- 55 kt (63 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 39.600, -107.383
Damaging Wind in Colorado, August 15, 2001
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Aug 15, 8:20 PM MST, 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 15, 8:20 PM MST, 21 minutes before
WESTERN COLORADO & EASTERN UTAH AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND JUNCTION CO 920 PM MDT WED AUG 15 2001 QUICK ZONE RELEASE TO KNOCK WX BACK TO ISOLATED WITH PARTIAL CLEARING AFTER MIDNIGHT. MESO ETA DID A GOOD JOB WITH TONIGHT WX SENDING ONE SHOT EAST ALONG THE CO/WY BORDER AND THE OTHER SOUTH ALONG OUR EASTERN UTAH ZONES. SAT IMAGERY SHOWS UPSTREAM STORMS DYING AS EVENING SETS IN. SO ONLY FEW SHOWERS OVER MOUNTAINS EXPECTED REST OF TONIGHT. NO CHANGES TO REMAINDER OF PACKAGE. .GJT...NONE. DJC
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, August 15, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Texas, August 15, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, August 15, 2001
- Heat in Florida, August 15, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, August 15, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, August 15, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, August 15, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Arizona, August 15, 2001
- Wildfire in Idaho, August 15, 2001
- Hail in North Dakota, August 15, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Wyoming, August 15, 2001
- Hail in Minnesota, August 15, 2001
More
Every storm in Colorado in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Colorado, August 2001
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5264319.