Special Weather Statement
NWS Grand Junction CO ยท US
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Special Weather Statement issued September 15 at 5:55PM MDT by NWS Grand Junction CO
- Event
- Special Weather Statement
- Issued
- Onset
- Expires
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Expected
- Severity
- Moderate
- Certainty
- Observed
- Response
- Execute
Description
Overview
At 555 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 9 miles south of Dinosaur, or 38 miles southeast of Vernal, moving northeast at 35 mph.
Hazard
Wind gusts up to 40 mph and half inch hail.
Source
Radar indicated.
Impacts
Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible. Locations impacted include... Massadona and Blue Mountain. This includes the following highways... U.S. Highway 40 in Colorado between mile markers 8 and 24. Colorado 64 between mile markers 6 and 17, and between mile markers 26 and 35.
Instructions
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Affected areas
- Lower Yampa River Basin
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Grand Junction CO
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~56s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M2KQZA4W2HZ38N5Z29G721QG
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.1c547f9229230aa56d81b125c4a5dc170ff1c01a.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.9616
- WMO heading
- XOUS55
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- United States (US)
- WMO bulletin number
- 55
Issue to receipt is approximate; issue-time rounding and clock differences affect this interval.
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | SPS |
| NationalWeatherService | SPS |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | SPSGJT |
| WMOidentifier | WWUS85 KGJT 152355 |
| NWSheadline | A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT SOUTHWESTERN MOFFAT AND NORTHWESTERN RIO BLANCO COUNTIES THROUGH 630 PM MDT |
| eventMotionDescription | 2026-09-15T23:55:00-00:00...storm...232DEG...32KT...40.11,-108.96 |
| maxWindGust | 40 MPH |
| maxHailSize | 0.50 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| EAS-ORG | WXR |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Lower Yampa River Basin
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 008045 |
| SAME | 008081 |
| SAME | 008103 |
| UGC | COZ001 |
- Polygons
- 40.04,-109.02 40.16,-109.01 40.38,-108.75 40.17,-108.55 40.04,-109.02