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Red Flag Warning 6, NWS Grand Junction, CO

May 7, 20149 counties in Colorado

NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this red flag warning at May 7, 2014, 1:18 PM MDT for 9 counties in Colorado. 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 7, 2014, 1:18 PM MDT (19:18 UTC)
Expired
May 7, 2014, 8:09 PM MDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Grand Junction, CO

Counties Delta County, CO, Dolores County, CO, Gunnison County, CO, Hinsdale County, CO, La Plata County, CO, Montezuma County, CO, Montrose County, CO, Ouray County, CO, San Miguel County, CO

The radar

The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:17 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 6, 5:05 PM MDT, 20 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 6, 5:05 PM MDT, 20 hours 13 minutes before
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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.