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Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Grand Junction, CO

April 11, 201810 counties in Colorado

NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this red flag warning at Apr 11, 2018, 2:34 PM MDT for 10 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Apr 12, 2018, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 8 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: Apr 11, 2018, 2:34 PM MDT (20:34 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 12, 2018, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired: Apr 12, 2018, 8:00 PM MDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Grand Junction, CO

Counties Archuleta County, CO, Dolores County, CO, Garfield County, CO, Hinsdale County, CO, La Plata County, CO, Mesa County, CO, Montezuma County, CO, Montrose County, CO, San Juan County, CO, San Miguel County, CO

The radar

The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:34 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 Apr 11, 11:44 AM MDT, 2 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 11, 11:44 AM MDT, 2 hours 50 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
Apr 11, 3:02 PM MDT	Winter Weather Advisory	GJT	Delta, Eagle, Garfield, Gunnison, Hinsdale, Mesa and 7 more	52 hr
Apr 11, 5:05 PM MDT	Wind Advisory	GJT	Archuleta, Delta, Dolores, Eagle, Garfield, Gunnison and 9 more	27 hr

Nearby

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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.