Reports from the Fruita Fire Department and public indicated wind damage, with 3 to 4 inch diameter tree branches and power lines downed in Fruita and Loma.
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Reports from the Fruita Fire Department and public indicated wind damage, with 3 to 4 inch diameter tree branches and power lines downed in Fruita and Loma.
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 10, 12:22 PM MST, 9 hours 8 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND JUNCTION CO 122 PM MDT THU JUN 10 2004 .SHORT TERM (TONIGHT-FRIDAY NIGHT)... ANOTHER SHORTWAVE TROUGH WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA TONIGHT. CONVECTION AHEAD OF THE TROUGH PRODUCED LIGHT RAIN OVER PRICE EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON BUT SEEMS TO HAVE COLLAPSED. EXPECT ISOLD REDEVELOPMENT OVER RIDGES THIS EVENING. WATCHING AREA OF BETTER DEVELOPMENT OVER WASATCH FRONT AND THIS MAY HOLD TOGETHER TIL IT REACHING ERN UTAH AND WRN CO. WILL KEEP HIGHER POPS OVER NRN HALF OF AREA THRU 9 PM. GOOD COLD ADVECTION MOVING IN BEHIND THIS FEATURE. BELIEVE CLOUD COVER HOLD TEMPS UP INITIALLY...BUT CLEARING WILL ALLOW BETTER COOLING LATE...SO LOWERED OVERNIGHT LOWS NORTH OF BOOKCLIFFS TO LOWER 30S. BELIEVE IT WILL NOT RESULT IN WIDESPREAD FREEZING TEMPS...JUST ISOLD NEAR FREEZING. DRIER ZONAL FLOW WITH ANOTHER WEAK SHORTWAVE MOVING THROUGH IN THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. NOT MUCH MOISTURE TO WORK WITH SO WILL MAINTAIN CURRENT LOW POPS OVER THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS. ETA APPEAR TO BE HANDLING THE PRECIPITATION AREAS FAIRLY WELL... BUT THERE IS QUITE A BIT OF DIFFERENCE IN TEMP FORECASTS TONIGHT. WILL GO CLOSER TO ETA BUT NOT QUITE AS COOL IN THE MORNING. GFS AND ETA BOTH PROJECTING WARM ADVECTION FRI. WILL STAY JUST BELOW MOS MAX TEMPS AS WIND WILL HOLD DOWN MAXES A BIT. .LONG-TERM (SATURDAY-THURSDAY)...(SATURDAY)...A WEAK WAVE WILL MOVE THROUGH A BROAD TROF OVER THE NORTHERN SECTION OF THE U.S. MOST OF THE ENERGY WILL BE NORTH OF THE CWA, ALTHOUGH THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE WAVE MAY KICK OFF SOME AFTERNOON CONVECTION IN THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS. LIMITED UPPER LEVEL MOISTURE WILL RESULT IN MOSTLY DRY THUNDERSTORMS, THOUGH. (SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY)...BRIEF NORTHWESTERLY FLOW WILL PREVAIL ON SUNDAY, BUT ASSOCIATED RIDGE WILL QUICKLY FLATTEN OUT. A SERIES OF WAVES ALONG THE U.S./CANADIAN BORDERS WILL RESULT IN A MORE ZONAL FLOW ACROSS THE CWA...BUT ENERGY AND MOISTURE WILL BE WELL TO THE NORTH. A MOSTLY DRY PERIOD, WITH A SLIGHT WARMING TREND. (WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY)...A LARGER-SCALE TROF WILL DEEPEN OVER THE EASTERN SEABOARD, INDUCING THE BUILDING OF A NW-SE ORIENTED RIDGE OVER THE WESTERN U.S. THE GFS SHOWS THE RIDGE TO BE SOMEWHAT OF A DIRTY ONE...WITH NUMEROUS WAVES SLIDING AROUND IT. MID AND UPPER LEVEL MOISTURE ADVECTING UP THE WEST SIDE OF THE RIDGE WILL INCREASE THE CHANCE OF CONVECTION IN THE HIGHER TERRAIN. TEMPERATURES A BIT ABOVE NORMAL. && .GJT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... .CO...NONE. .UT...NONE. && CJC/BA
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND JUNCTION CO 545 AM MDT THU JUN 10 2004 COZ001>010-013-UTZ023>025-111145- CENTRAL COLORADO RIVER BASIN-CENTRAL YAMPA RIVER BASIN- DEBEQUE TO SILT CORRIDOR-EASTERN UINTA BASIN-EASTERN UINTA MOUNTAINS- ELKHEAD AND PARK MOUNTAINS-FLAT TOPS- GORE AND ELK MOUNTAINS/CENTRAL MOUNTAINS-GRAND AND BATTLEMENT MESAS- GRAND VALLEY-LOWER YAMPA RIVER BASIN-ROAN AND TAVAPUTS PLATEAUS- TAVAPUTS PLATEAU-UPPER YAMPA RIVER BASIN- 545 AM MDT THU JUN 10 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST UTAH AND NORTHWEST COLORADO ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 70. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN. GUSTY WINDS TO NEAR 45 MPH AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN WILL OCCUR WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR OVER THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS EACH AFTERNOON AND EVENING...OTHERWISE DRY CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST THROUGH WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT. COZ011-012-014-017>023-UTZ022-027>029-111145- ANIMAS RIVER BASIN-ARCHES/GRAND FLAT-CANYONLANDS/NATURAL BRIDGES- CENTRAL GUNNISON AND UNCOMPAHGRE RIVER BASIN- FOUR CORNERS/UPPER DOLORES RIVER-LA SAL AND ABAJO MOUNTAINS- NORTHWEST SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS-PARADOX VALLEY/LOWER DOLORES RIVER- SAN JUAN RIVER BASIN-SOUTHEAST UTAH-SOUTHWEST SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS- UNCOMPAHGRE PLATEAU AND DALLAS DIVIDE-UPPER GUNNISON RIVER VALLEY- WEST ELK AND SAWATCH MOUNTAINS- 545 AM MDT THU JUN 10 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST UTAH AND SOUTHWEST COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT. COLTON
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1 strong wind. Local standard time, as filed.
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