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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Grand Junction, CO

August 18, 2003Routt County, Colorado

NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 2003, 10:04 AM MDT for Routt County, Colorado. It was in force for 41 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 18, 2003, 10:04 AM MDT (16:04 UTC)
Expired: Aug 18, 2003, 10:45 AM MDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Junction, CO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Routt County, CO

The radar

The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 190 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, 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 this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 17, 2:43 PM MDT, 19 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 17, 2:43 PM MDT, 19 hours 21 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Grand Junction, CO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 18, 12:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GJT	Garfield	36 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2003 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.