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Grand County, Utah, issues Extreme local-area emergency for Crescent Junction
Grand County, Utah, issued an IPAWS Extreme Immediate local-area emergency for Crescent Junction on Sunday; the desk record did not include the message text.
Grand County, Utah, issued an Integrated Public Alert and Warning System local-area emergency on Sunday for Crescent Junction1.
The IPAWS record listed Extreme severity, Immediate urgency and Observed certainty, sent at 22:01 UTC (5:01 p.m. EST) on Nov. 1 and set to expire at 02:01 UTC on Nov. 2 (9:01 p.m. EST Sunday)1.
The desk record named Crescent Junction as the affected area but did not include the wording of the message or instructions for the public1. Independent confirmation of the on-the-ground hazard was not in the official alert text provided to the desk1.