Special Weather Statement
NWS Grand Junction CO ยท US
Details
A Strong Thunderstorm Will Impact South Central Garfield County Through 845 PM MDT
- Event
- Special Weather Statement
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Expected
- Severity
- Moderate
- Certainty
- Observed
- Response
- Execute
Description
Overview
At 808 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near Rifle, or 26 miles west of Glenwood Springs, moving east at 30 mph.
Hazard
Wind gusts up to 50 mph and penny size hail.
Source
Radar indicated.
Impacts
Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation and outdoor objects is possible. Locations impacted include... Rifle and Silt. This includes the following highways... Interstate 70 in Colorado between mile markers 83 and 102. Colorado 13 between mile markers 1 and 4.
Instructions
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
Affected areas
- Roan and Tavaputs Plateaus
- Debeque to Silt Corridor
- Grand and Battlement Mesas
- Gore and Elk Mountains/Central Mountain Valleys
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Grand Junction CO
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~53s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M2Y95KXE85S7N5HE19H6Z8JJ
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.068d34072e0aaadcad19c301e50fde4cd518c295.001.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Scope
- Public
- CAP source
- 211803 v2.3.0
- Handling codes
- IPAWSv1.0
- Issuing office
- NWS Grand Junction CO
- AWIPS ID
- CAPGJT
- NWWS sequence
- nwws_processor.3345
- WMO heading
- XOUS55
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- United States (US)
- WMO bulletin number
- 55
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | SPS |
| NationalWeatherService | SPS |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | SPSGJT |
| WMOidentifier | WWUS85 KGJT 200208 |
| NWSheadline | A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT SOUTH CENTRAL GARFIELD COUNTY THROUGH 845 PM MDT |
| eventMotionDescription | 2026-09-20T02:08:00-00:00...storm...269DEG...27KT...39.49,-107.81 |
| maxWindGust | 50 MPH |
| maxHailSize | 0.75 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| EAS-ORG | WXR |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Roan and Tavaputs Plateaus
- Debeque to Silt Corridor
- Grand and Battlement Mesas
- Gore and Elk Mountains/Central Mountain Valleys
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 008045 |
| SAME | 008077 |
| SAME | 008103 |
| SAME | 008029 |
| SAME | 008037 |
| SAME | 008097 |
| UGC | COZ003 |
| UGC | COZ007 |
| UGC | COZ009 |
| UGC | COZ010 |
- Polygons
- 39.4,-107.91 39.54,-107.93 39.65,-107.57 39.33,-107.55 39.4,-107.91