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Red Flag Warning 16, NWS Grand Junction, CO

July 25, 2015Moffat County, Rio Blanco County, Colorado

NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this red flag warning at Jul 25, 2015, 11:42 PM MDT for Moffat County, Rio Blanco County, Colorado. It took effect at Jul 26, 2015, 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: Jul 25, 2015, 11:42 PM MDT (05:42 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 26, 2015, 1:00 PM MDT
Expired: Jul 26, 2015, 8:00 PM MDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Grand Junction, CO

Counties Moffat County, CO, Rio Blanco County, CO

The radar

The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:45 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 Jul 25, 11:34 PM MDT, 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 11:34 PM MDT, 8 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
Jul 26, 1:48 PM MDT	Red Flag Warning	GJT	Garfield, Mesa, Moffat, Rio Blanco, Routt	30 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Colorado, 2015 Every red flag warning in 2015

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.