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Blowing Dust Advisory 28, NWS Tucson, AZ

December 24, 2016Cochise County, Arizona

NWS Tucson, AZ issued this blowing dust advisory at Dec 24, 2016, 4:06 PM MST for Cochise County, Arizona. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 24, 2016, 4:06 PM MST (23:06 UTC)
Expired: Dec 24, 2016, 8:00 PM MST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Tucson, AZ

County Cochise County, AZ

The radar

The Tucson radar (KEMX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:09 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 Dec 24, 3:50 PM MST, 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 24, 3:50 PM MST, 16 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Dec 24, 3:32 PM MST, 34 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
Dec 24, 12:40 PM MST	Blowing Dust Advisory	TWC	Pima, Pinal	3 hr

Nearby

Blowing Dust Advisories in Arizona, 2016 Every blowing dust advisory in 2016

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.