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Blowing Dust Advisory 3, NWS Tucson, AZ

May 22, 2014Pima County, Pinal County, Arizona

NWS Tucson, AZ issued this blowing dust advisory at May 22, 2014, 2:18 PM MST for Pima County, Pinal County, Arizona. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 22, 2014, 2:18 PM MST (21:18 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2014, 6:05 PM MST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Tucson, AZ

Counties Pima County, AZ, Pinal County, AZ

The radar

The Phoenix radar (KIWA), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:21 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 blowing dust advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Tucson, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before this blowing dust advisory went out at May 22, 8:56 AM MST, 5 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 22, 8:56 AM MST, 5 hours 22 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 22, 2:12 PM MST, 6 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Tucson, AZ issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 21, 9:09 PM MST	Red Flag Warning	TWC	Cochise, Graham, Greenlee, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz	22 hr

Nearby

Blowing Dust Advisories in Arizona, 2014 Every blowing dust advisory 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.