Thunderstorm Wind, San Juan
- When
- June 7, 10:00 PM MST to 10:05 PM MST
- Where
- San Juan County, 6 mi N of La Sal
- Measured
- 55 kt (63 mph) measured gust
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 38.417, -109.183
Damaging Wind in Utah, June 7, 2006
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 Jun 7, 9:17 PM MST, 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 9:17 PM MST, 43 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND JUNCTION CO
1017 PM MDT WED JUN 7 2006
...RED FLAG WARNING FOR WESTERN COLORADO CANCELLED...
THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DECREASED WITH NO MORE THAN ISOLATED EXPECTED
OVERNIGHT...AND MOST OF THESE WILL BE WET. SO THE RED FLAG WARNING
WAS CANCELLED. THE ONLY OTHER CHANGE IN THE DISCUSSION BELOW WAS TO
DELETE THE FIRE WEATHER SECTION ABOUT THE RED FLAG WARNING AND THE
ASSOCIATED HIGHLIGHT.
.SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY)...
THE CENTER OF THE STRONG HIGH PRESSURE WHICH HAS BEEN PRODUCING THE
RECORD HEAT ACROSS EASTERN UTAH AND WESTERN COLORADO IS SHIFTING
TO THE EAST. CLOCKWISE FLOW AROUND THE HIGH HAS ADVECTED MORE
MOISTURE OVER THE AREA RESULTING IN INCREASED THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE MORNING GJT RAOB PRECIPITABLE WATER
WAS AT .72 INCHES BUT THE SOUNDING WAS STILL VERY INVERTED BELOW
500MB SO LOWER ELEVATIONS LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE SOME STRONG GUSTY
OUTFLOW WINDS AND LITTLE RAINFALL FROM THE STORMS INTO THE
EARLY EVENING. AREAL COVERAGE OF STORMS WILL DECREASE DRAMATICALLY
THROUGH THE EVENING AS THE BOUNDARY LAYER STABILIZES. A WEAK
DISTURBANCE OR SOME OUTFLOW INTERACTIONS MAY BE ENOUGH TO
GENERATE SOME ISOLATED SHOWERS OF THUNDERSTORMS INTO THE LATE
NIGHT HOURS.
THE HIGH PRESSURE CENTER WILL MOVE FURTHER EAST OVER TEXAS AND
OKLAHOMA THURSDAY WHILE AN UPPER TROUGH MOVES OVER THE PACIFIC
NORTHWEST. THIS WILL INCREASE SOUTHWEST FLOW OVER THE FORECAST AREA
WHILE MOISTURE CONTINUES TO STREAM ACROSS THE AREA. BLANKETED THE
FORECAST AREA WITH SCATTERED POPS FOR THURSDAY AFTERNOON WITH
POTENTIAL FOR SOME DISTURBANCES EMBEDDED IN THE FLOW TO PROVIDE
SOME WEAK DYNAMIC FORCING. INSTABILITY NOT PROGGED TO BE GREAT
ON THURSDAY BUT EXPECT BETTER SPEED SHEAR RESULTING IN A LITTLE
STRONGER STORMS. SURFACE DEW POINTS WILL BE ON RISE RESULTING A
BETTER CHANCE OF WETTING RAINS. LOWERING HEIGHTS ALONG WITH THE
INCREASED MOISTURE AND CLOUDS SHOULD TRIM DAYTIME HIGHS BY SEVERAL
DEGREES THURSDAY COMPARED TO TODAY. A FEW NOCTURNAL SHOWERS OR
THUNDERSTORMS POTENTIALLY PERSISTING LATE THURSDAY NIGHT.
THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST TROUGH WILL MOVE CLOSER TO THE AREA FRIDAY
WITH SOUTHWEST FLOW CONTINUING. EXPECT ANOTHER ROUND OF SCATTERED
MAINLY DIURNALLY DRIVEN CONVECTION WITH POTENTIAL FOR SOME LARGER
SCALE DYNAMIC FORCING AHEAD OF THE TROUGH. LITTLE CHANGE IN
TEMPERATURES FOR FRIDAY. LINDQUIST
.LONG TERM (FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY)...
INCREASING WESTERLY FLOW WILL BRING DRIER AIR TO THE FORECAST AREA
THIS WEEKEND...LOWERING CONVECTIVE POTENTIAL. HOWEVER...THERE STILL
WILL BE SUFFICIENT MID LEVEL MOISTURE FOR HIGH BASED STORMS OVER THE
HIGH TERRAIN. BUT IT ALSO DEPENDS WHICH MODEL TO BELIEVE...THE GFS
LIMITS SHOWERS TO THE SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS ON SATURDAY...BUT IS DRY
THEREAFTER. THE DGEX IS WETTER AND SHOWS SHOWERS ON SUNDAY AND
MONDAY AFTERNOON. EASY TO SPLIT THE DIFFERENCE AND INDICATE A TREND
OF DECREASING CONVECTIVE POTENTIAL EACH DAY FROM SATURDAY THROUGH
MONDAY. IN THE GRIDS FOR SATURDAY...WILL INDICATE A CHANCE OF
THUNDERSTORMS IN THE HIGH COUNTRY...BUT ONLY A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THE
LOWLANDS. BUT WITH DRIER AIR SPREADING ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA BY
SUNDAY...THE THUNDER THREAT BECOMES MORE ISOLATED AND PRIMARILY
CONFINED TO THE WESTERN COLORADO ROCKIES.
THE LATEST GFS DEPICTS A MODERATELY STRONG TROUGH BUSTING INTO THE
GREAT BASIN BY TUESDAY AFTERNOON...INCREASING GRADIENT FLOW FOR
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. THIS SITUATION BEARS WATCHING BECAUSE OF
FIRE WEATHER CONCERNS...HOWEVER THE PREVIOUS GFS MODEL RUN KEPT THIS
TROUGH ALONG THE CALIFORNIA COAST BEFORE WEAKENING AS IT DRIFTS
INLAND. PREFER THE 00Z GFS RUN RATHER THAN THE LATEST 12Z GFS AS
STRONG TROUGHS BUSTING INLAND THIS TIME OF YEAR ARE RARE...AND NO
OTHER EXTENDED MODEL SUPPORTS THIS IDEA. FOR THE TIME
BEING...EXPECT DRY SOUTHWEST FLOW WITH RISING TEMPERATURES RETURNING
TO SEVERAL DEGREES ABOVE SEASONAL NORMS.
&&
.HYDROLOGY...
RIVERS...SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS ACROSS NORTHWEST COLORADO AND
NORTHEAST UTAH WILL CONTINUE TO RUN HIGH AS THE VERY WARM SPRING
TEMPERATURES MELT THE HIGH LEVEL SNOWPACK.
&&
.GJT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
.CO...NONE.
.UT...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR EASTERN
UTAH BELOW 8000 FEET.
&&
TAL/PF/CJCHazardous weather outlook, Jun 7, 9:19 PM MST, 41 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND JUNCTION CO 1019 PM MDT WED JUN 7 2006 COZ001>014-017>023-UTZ022>025-027>029-081200- ANIMAS RIVER BASIN-ARCHES/GRAND FLAT-CANYONLANDS/NATURAL BRIDGES- CENTRAL COLORADO RIVER BASIN- CENTRAL GUNNISON AND UNCOMPAHGRE RIVER BASIN- CENTRAL YAMPA RIVER BASIN-DEBEQUE TO SILT CORRIDOR- EASTERN UINTA BASIN-EASTERN UINTA MOUNTAINS- ELKHEAD AND PARK MOUNTAINS-FLAT TOPS- FOUR CORNERS/UPPER DOLORES RIVER- GORE AND ELK MOUNTAINS/CENTRAL MOUNTAINS-GRAND AND BATTLEMENT MESAS- GRAND VALLEY-LA SAL AND ABAJO MOUNTAINS-LOWER YAMPA RIVER BASIN- NORTHWEST SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS-PARADOX VALLEY/LOWER DOLORES RIVER- ROAN AND TAVAPUTS PLATEAUS-SAN JUAN RIVER BASIN-SOUTHEAST UTAH- SOUTHWEST SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS-TAVAPUTS PLATEAU- UNCOMPAHGRE PLATEAU AND DALLAS DIVIDE-UPPER GUNNISON RIVER VALLEY- UPPER YAMPA RIVER BASIN-WEST ELK AND SAWATCH MOUNTAINS- 1019 PM MDT WED JUN 7 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN UTAH AND WESTERN COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER WESTERN COLORADO AND EASTERN UTAH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES THROUGH THE WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK...MAINLY OVER THE MOUNTAINS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT. NL/TAL/EL
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 7, 4:50 PM MST, 5 hours 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND JUNCTION CO
550 PM MDT WED JUN 07 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0523 PM TSTM WND GST 2 N MOAB 38.60N 109.55W
06/07/2006 M59 MPH GRAND UT ASOS
THUNDERSTORM GUST REPORTED AT CANYONLAND AIRPORT
&&
CCUOCOLocal storm report, Jun 7, 5:36 PM MST, 4 hours 24 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND JUNCTION CO
636 PM MDT WED JUN 07 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0317 PM TSTM WND GST BLANDING 37.62N 109.48W
06/07/2006 M63 MPH SAN JUAN UT CO-OP OBSERVER
A 20 FT PINE TREE ON THE PROPERTY, WHICH HAD BEEN HEAVILY
WATERED THE DAY BEFORE, WAS BLOWN OVER BY THE WINDS.
&&
DCUEVASLocal storm report, Jun 7, 6:01 PM MST, 3 hours 59 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND JUNCTION CO
701 PM MDT WED JUN 07 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0610 PM TSTM WND GST 36 NW GRAND JUNCTION 39.45N 109.03W
06/07/2006 M61.00 MPH GARFIELD CO MESONET
THUNDERSTORM WIND GUST RECORDED AT DOUGLAS PASS CDOT
SITE.
&&
CUOCOThe radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 111 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:58 UTC.
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
- Tornado and Hail in Indiana, June 7, 2006
- Tornado and Hail in Nebraska, June 7, 2006
- Damaging Wind in Arizona, June 7, 2006
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Georgia, June 7, 2006
- Damaging Wind in Utah, June 7, 2006
- Flooding in Massachusetts, June 7 to 16, 2006
- Flooding in Rhode Island, June 7 to 10, 2006
- Damaging Winds in Nebraska, June 7, 2006
- Flash Flood in Michigan, June 7, 2006
- Flood and Hail in Ohio, June 7, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, June 7, 2006
- Damaging Winds in Utah, June 7, 2006
More
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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: 5514762.