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Red Flag Warning 31, NWS Grand Junction, CO
NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this red flag warning at Aug 27, 2018, 9:44 AM MDT for Montrose County, San Miguel County, Colorado; Grand County, Utah. It took effect at Aug 27, 2018, 11:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 9 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
- Aug 27, 2018, 9:44 AM MDT (15:44 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 27, 2018, 11:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2018, 8:14 PM MDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Junction, CO
Counties Montrose County, CO, San Miguel County, CO, Grand County, UT
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:46 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 Aug 27, 7:33 AM MDT, 2 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 27, 7:33 AM MDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Grand Junction, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 26, 6:08 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GJT | Montrose | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 6:48 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GJT | Dolores | 42 min |
| Aug 26, 7:20 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GJT | Montezuma | 40 min |
| Aug 26, 10:22 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GJT | 38 min | |
| Aug 26, 11:15 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GJT | Rio Blanco | 45 min |
| Aug 26, 11:56 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GJT | Mesa | 34 min |
| Aug 27, 12:23 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GJT | Garfield | 37 min |
| Aug 27, 1:35 AM MDT | Wind Advisory | GJT | Eagle, Garfield, Mesa, Moffat, Pitkin, Rio Blanco and 1 more | 19 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.