Name: Damaging Wind in Colorado, June 3, 2002
Start: 2002-06-03T12:00
End: 2002-06-03T12:10
Location: Colorado

Where it happened

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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 Jun 3, 2:10 AM MST, 9 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 2:10 AM MST, 9 hours 50 minutes before

WESTERN COLORADO & EASTERN UTAH AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND JUNCTION CO
310 AM MDT MON JUN 3 2002

MODELS IN BETTER AGREEMENT AND HAVE TENDED TOWARD AVN SOLUTION FOR
APPROACHING TROF CURRENTLY OVER THE GREAT BASIN. EXPECT MOSTLY CLOUDY
SKIES TODAY AS SYSTEM MOVES INTO OUR CWA. SYSTEM WILL SLOWLY SAG
SOUTHEAST WITH ACCOMPANYING COLD FRONT THROUGH TONIGHT. BEST MOISTURE
AND FORCING WILL BE OVER NORTHERN SECTIONS EARLY THEN PUSH SOUTH
LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT. HAVE GONE WITH SCT POPS ACROSS THE NORTH AND
MOUNTAINS WITH ISOLATED POPS ACROSS THE SOUTH FOR TODAY. EXPECT GUSTY
WINDS WITH THE ONSET OF SHOWER ACTIVITY UNTIL LOWER TROP MOISTURE
INCREASES. AS THE TROF MOVES SLOWLY ACROSS THE CWA TONIGHT HAVE GONE
WITH SCT/CHANCE POPS MOST LOCATIONS WITH GOOD MOISTURE AND ADEQUATE
FORCING. MODELS KEEP TROF AND MOISTURE OVER COLORADO ON TUESDAY WITH
CLEARING OVER EASTERN UTAH. HAVE GONE WITH MOSTLY CLOUDY AND COOLER
CONDITIONS WITH SLIGHT CHANCE/CHANCE POPS ACROSS ALL OF COLORADO
ZONES WITH PARTLY CLOUDY OVER WESTERN SECTIONS OF CWA. SYSTEM SLOWLY
MOVES SOUTH OF THE AREA ON TUESDAY NIGHT WITH A RETURN TO MOSTLY
CLEAR/PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES. RIDGE AXIS BUILDS IN FROM THE SOUTHWEST ON
WEDNESDAY WITH MOSTLY SUNNY/PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES AND WARMER
TEMPERATURE ACROSS THE REGION. MPM

THURSDAY-SUNDAY: BIG DISAGREEMENT AMONG MODELS IN THE LARGE
SCALE PATTERN. SOLUTIONS SPLIT FOR THE THURSDAY AND FRIDAY TIME
FRAME...BETWEEN THE SOUTHERN END OF TROUGH CUTTING OFF OVER THE
DESERT SOUTHWEST AND NORTHERN MEXICO...AND A MORE PROGRESSIVE
SOLUTION WITH A STRONG RIDGE BUILDING OVER THE AREA. LATEST MRF
TRENDING FASTER THAN PREVIOUS RUN. WILL LEAN TOWARD THE MORE
PROGRESSIVE PATTERN OF THE LATEST AVN/MRF BUT NOT WARM THINGS UP AS
MUCH AS THE MODELS SUGGEST. BETTER AGREEMENT TOWARD THE END OF THE
WEEK WITH THE MODELS SHOWING A TROUGH MOVING INTO THE PACIFIC
NORTHWEST AND ACROSS THE ROCKIES. THICKNESS PATTERN SUGGESTING A DRY
COLD FRONT PASSAGE SATURDAY. COOLING TREND OVER THE WEEKEND WITH
BREEZY TO WINDY CONDITIONS SATURDAY. WILL KEEP THINGS DRY. TAL

WESTERN COLORADO AND EASTERN UTAH EMERGENCY MANAGERS SHOULD MAINTAIN
A HEIGHTENED LEVEL OF WEATHER AWARENESS TODAY DUE TO SHOWER AND
THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY AND RESULTANT GUSTY WINDS NEAR STORMS.

.GJT...NONE.

The radar

The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 190 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:01 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Routt

When: June 3, 12:00 PM MST to 12:10 PM MST
Where: Routt County, 4 mi N of Hayden
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph) measured gust
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 40.485, -106.991 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

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

More

Every storm in Colorado in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Colorado, June 2002

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: 5324148.