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Red Flag Warning 6, NWS Grand Junction, CO

May 26, 200611 counties in Colorado

NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this red flag warning at May 26, 2006, 6:26 AM MDT for 11 counties in Colorado. It took effect at May 26, 2006, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 54 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2006, 6:26 AM MDT (12:26 UTC)
In effect from: May 26, 2006, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired: May 28, 2006, 6:00 PM MDT
In force: 54 hr
Issued by: NWS Grand Junction, CO

Counties Dolores County, CO, Eagle County, CO, Garfield County, CO, La Plata County, CO, Mesa County, CO, Moffat County, CO, Montezuma County, CO, Pitkin County, CO, Rio Blanco County, CO, Routt County, CO, San Miguel County, CO

The radar

The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:28 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 red flag 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 red flag warning went out at May 26, 4:04 AM MDT, 2 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 4:04 AM MDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 26, 5:53 AM MDT, 33 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
May 26, 3:00 PM MDT	Wind Advisory	GJT	Archuleta, Delta, Dolores, Eagle, Garfield, Gunnison and 12 more	30 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Colorado, 2006 Red Flag Warnings in Utah, 2006 Every red flag warning in 2006

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.