Strong winds ahead of a cold front blew down a large scaffolding at a construction site in El Jebel. The scaffolding was destroyed.
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The episode as NWS GJT wrote it up.
Strong winds ahead of a cold front blew down a large scaffolding at a construction site in El Jebel. The scaffolding was destroyed. The only person who was on the scaffolding when it collapsed was seriously injured.
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 Feb 13, 2:24 AM MST, 7 hours 36 minutes earlier.
WESTERN COLORADO & EASTERN UTAH AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND JUNCTION CO 224 AM MST TUE FEB 13 2001 RUC...SATELLITE AND UA ANALYSIS SHOW WEAK SPEED MAX AND VORT MAX ENHANCING CLDS FROM NW AZ TO SWRN UT. THIS SHOULD INCREASE THE MID AND HI CLOUDS OVER WRN CO AND ERN UT BY SUNRISE. EXPECTING ANOTHER CLOUDY BUT MILD DAY ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA ONLY LIGHT SCTD ORGPHC SNOW SHOWERS OVER HIR MTNS FAVORED IN SW FLOW. STRONG VORT MAX EJECTING FROM LOW OFF CA WITH LARGE AREA OF COOLING TOPS AND SGFNT PCPN ASSOCIATED WITH IT. REMNANT OF THIS FEATURE SHOULD GET DRAW NE BY DEFORMATION ZONE NOW OVER SE ID AND NRN ROCKIES. WHERE THE CA LOW WILL GO AND HOW FAST IT WILL GO THERE ARE THE MAIN FCST PROBLEMS THIS MORNING. SEVERAL SHORT WAVES AND A STRONG JET WEST AND NW OF LOW CENTER ARE EVIDENT ON SATELLITE IMAGERY. THESE SHOULD KEEP THE LOW CENTER DUMBELLING TO THE SSE FOR THE NEXT 24 HRS BEFORE FINALING STARTING A ENE PUSH. MODELS COMING TOGETHER ON TIMING THIS STORM MOVEMENT...BUT DIFFER ON PARTICULARS OF MOISTURE DEPTH AND STRENGTH OF COLD ADVCTN REACHING CO/UT. ETA IS FASTEST AS IT SHOWS STORM BEGINNING TO AFFECT THE AREA IN A BIG WAY THIS EVENING...WHILE AVN HOLDS BACK UNTIL LATE TONIGHT OR WED MORNING. RIGHT NOW...WITH AS MANY INTERSTING THINGS HAPPENING WEST OF THE LOW...WILL TEND TO BLV THE SLOWER SOLN AND THINK THE STORM MAY MOVE EVEN SLOWER THAN AVN PREDICTS. RUNNING THE ORGPHC SNOW MODEL USING AVN DATA FOR WED AND WED NGT PRODUCED HIGH SNOW ADVY LEVEL SNOWFALL FOR ALL OF SWRN CO AS WELL AS ZONES 17/9/12 IN CNTRL CO. AFTER CONFERRING WITH PUB...WE REACHED CONSENSUS NOT TO ISSUE A W.S. WATCH AT THIS TIME. IF STORM SLOWS THEN WEAKENS BEFORE IT GETS HERE...A SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW ADVY MAY WORK OUT WELL...BUT ITS STILL A LITTLE TOO EARLY TO FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH A WATCH. THRU MUCH OF THE EXTENDED...IT APPEARING LOW-MID LVL MOISTURE NEVER REALLY DISAPPEARS...WITH MINOR IMPULSES TRAVELING THROUGH EVERY 24 HRS /CENTERED AT ABOUT 12Z EACH DAY/ THRU SAT ON A RELATIVELY FLAT RIDGE. SHOULD BRING MORE CLOUDS THAN PCPN DUE TO VERY WK DYNAMICS. RIDGE APPEARS TO BEGIN SHIFTING EAST BY MON SO WILL CONTI NUE CURRENT TREND OF INCREASE PCPN CHCS MON. CUOCO WESTERN COLORADO AND EASTERN UTAH EMERGENCY MANAGERS SHOULD MAINTAIN A NORMAL LEVEL OF WEATHER AWARENESS TODAY. .GJT...NONE.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
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