Dust Storm Warning for Cochise, AZ
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- Cochise
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What is happening
The National Weather Service in Tucson has issued a * Dust Storm Warning for... Western Cochise County in southeastern Arizona... * Until 915 PM MST. * At 746 PM MST, a wall of dense blowing dust was located along a line from 15 miles southwest of Chiricahua National Monument to near Texas Canyon to 17 miles...
What the bulletin says to do
Motorists should not drive into a dust storm. PULL ASIDE STAY ALIVE!
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Bulletin details
The National Weather Service in Tucson has issued a * Dust Storm Warning for... Western Cochise County in southeastern Arizona... * Until 915 PM MST. * At 746 PM MST, a wall of dense blowing dust was located along a line from 15 miles southwest of Chiricahua National Monument to near Texas Canyon to 17 miles northwest of Willcox, moving southwest at 15 mph. HAZARD...Less than a quarter mile visibility. SOURCE...Detected by National Weather Service meteorologists. IMPACT...Dangerous life-threatening travel. * Locations impacted include... Benson, St. David, Dragoon, Pearce-Sunsites, Mescal, Cochise, Elfrida, Sunizona, Texas Canyon, Kansas Settlement and Cascabel. This includes the following highways... Route 90 between mile markers 290 and 296. Route 80 between mile markers 293 and 313. Route 181 between mile markers 39 and 46. Route 191 between mile markers 21 and 61...and near mile marker 66. Interstate 10 between mile markers 298 and 332.
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Dust Storm Warning issued August 1 at 7:46PM MST until August 1 at 9:15PM MST by NWS Tucson AZ
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Publisher: Weather Alert Watch. Primary source: NWS Tucson AZ. This page reorganizes official fields and does not add a forecast or expand the affected area.
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