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Freeze Warning 4, NWS Grand Junction, CO

May 28, 20125 counties in Colorado

NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this freeze warning at May 28, 2012, 3:14 PM MDT for 5 counties in Colorado. It took effect at May 29, 2012, 12:00 AM 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: May 28, 2012, 3:14 PM MDT (21:14 UTC)
In effect from: May 29, 2012, 12:00 AM MDT
Expired: May 29, 2012, 7:00 AM MDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Grand Junction, CO

Counties Archuleta County, CO, La Plata County, CO, Moffat County, CO, Rio Blanco County, CO, Routt County, CO

The radar

The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 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 freeze 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 freeze warning went out at May 28, 10:29 AM MDT, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 10:29 AM MDT, 4 hours 45 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 28, 2:43 PM MDT	Fire Weather Watch	GJT	Moffat, Rio Blanco	19 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Colorado, 2012 Every freeze warning in 2012

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.