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Red Flag Warning 19, NWS Grand Junction, CO

June 16, 201413 counties in Colorado

NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this red flag warning at Jun 16, 2014, 3:43 AM MDT for 13 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Jun 16, 2014, 11:07 PM MDT. It was in force for 22 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: Jun 16, 2014, 3:43 AM MDT (09:43 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 16, 2014, 11:07 PM MDT
Expired: Jun 17, 2014, 9:00 PM MDT
In force: 22 hr
Issued by: NWS Grand Junction, CO

Counties Delta County, CO, Dolores County, CO, Garfield County, CO, Gunnison County, CO, Hinsdale County, CO, La Plata County, CO, Mesa County, CO, Moffat County, CO, Montezuma County, CO, Montrose County, CO, Ouray County, CO, Rio Blanco County, CO, San Miguel County, CO

The radar

The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:46 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 Jun 16, 3:31 AM MDT, 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 3:31 AM MDT, 12 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 16, 1:38 AM MDT, 2 hours 5 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
Jun 16, 3:42 AM MDT	Wind Advisory	GJT	Dolores, Montezuma, San Miguel	19 hr
Jun 16, 2:54 PM MDT	Fire Weather Watch	GJT	Dolores, La Plata, Montezuma, San Miguel	24 hr
Jun 16, 3:18 PM MDT	Wind Advisory	GJT	Delta, Dolores, Eagle, Garfield, Gunnison, La Plata and 8 more	30 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Colorado, 2014 Every red flag warning in 2014

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.