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Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Grand Junction, CO

April 27, 20104 counties in Colorado

NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this red flag warning at Apr 27, 2010, 5:58 AM MDT for 4 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Apr 27, 2010, 1:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 7 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: Apr 27, 2010, 5:58 AM MDT (11:58 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 27, 2010, 1:00 PM MDT
Expired: Apr 27, 2010, 8:00 PM MDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Grand Junction, CO

Counties Eagle County, CO, Garfield County, CO, Mesa County, CO, Pitkin County, CO

The radar

The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:03 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 Apr 27, 3:11 AM MDT, 2 hours 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 27, 3:11 AM MDT, 2 hours 47 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
Apr 27, 2:21 PM MDT	High Wind Warning	GJT	Archuleta, Delta, Dolores, Garfield, Gunnison, Hinsdale and 10 more	34 hr
Apr 27, 2:45 PM MDT	Red Flag Warning	GJT	Eagle, Garfield, Mesa, Pitkin	30 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Colorado, 2010 Every red flag warning in 2010

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.