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Red Flag Warning 16, NWS Grand Junction, CO

June 8, 201817 counties in Colorado; 4 counties in Utah

NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this red flag warning at Jun 8, 2018, 10:50 AM MDT for 17 counties in Colorado; 4 counties in Utah. It took effect at Jun 10, 2018, 10:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 12 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 8, 2018, 10:50 AM MDT (16:50 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 10, 2018, 10:00 AM MDT
Expired: Jun 10, 2018, 10:00 PM MDT
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Grand Junction, CO

All 21 counties

Archuleta County, CO, Delta County, CO, Dolores County, CO, Eagle 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, Pitkin County, CO, Rio Blanco County, CO, San Juan County, CO, San Miguel County, CO, Daggett County, UT, Grand County, UT, San Juan County, UT, Uintah County, UT

The radar

The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:49 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 8, 10:14 AM MDT, 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 10:14 AM MDT, 36 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 8, 4:20 AM MDT	Red Flag Warning	GJT	Archuleta, Delta, Dolores, Eagle, Garfield, Gunnison and 11 more	41 hr
Jun 8, 11:02 AM MDT	Dense Smoke Advisory	GJT	Archuleta, Dolores, Hinsdale, La Plata, Montezuma, San Juan and 1 more	23 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Colorado, 2018 Red Flag Warnings in Utah, 2018 Every red flag warning in 2018

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.