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Wednesday's Red Flag Warning will be allowed to expire at 8 PM. Thursday's Red Flag Warning and Friday's Fire Weather Watch remain in effect. * AFFECTED AREA...In Colorado, Fire Weather Zone 207 Southwest Colorado Lower Forecast Area and Fire Weather Zone 290 Paradox Valley Forecast Area. In Utah, Fire Weather Zone 486 Eastern Uinta Basin, Fire Weather Zone 487 Book Cliffs and Fire Weather Zone 490 Colorado River Basin. * TIMING...For the Red Flag Warning, from 1 PM to 8 PM MDT

At 659 PM PDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near Suplee, or 40 miles northwest of Burns, moving west at 40 mph. HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph and half inch hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible. Locations impacted include... Suplee. If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

At 927 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a cluster of strong thunderstorms over Ocala, moving north at 15 mph. HAZARD...Wind gusts around 40 mph. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Locations impacted include... Ocala, Rainbow Lakes Estates, Interlachen, Fort McCoy, Salt Springs, Citra, Lynne, Hawthorne, Archer, and Lake Delancy. If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

At 631 PM PDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along a line extending from 15 miles east of La Pine to 7 miles west of Brothers to 8 miles southwest of Paulina. Movement was west at 40 mph. HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Locations impacted include... La Pine, Millican, and Brothers. This includes Highway 20 between mile markers 22 and 53. If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

At 637 PM PDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 7 miles southeast of Izee, or 28 miles northwest of Burns, moving northwest at 35 mph. HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and pea size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible. Locations impacted include... Izee. If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

At 737 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near Stevensville, or 19 miles north of Hamilton, moving north at 10 mph. HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and pea size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is possible. Locations impacted include... Stevensville and Florence. Monitor the weather situation closely and be alert for threatening weather conditions.

At 642 PM PDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over Imnaha, or 21 miles northeast of Enterprise, moving west at 25 mph. HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph and pea size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible. Locations impacted include... Imnaha. If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.

At 843 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along a line extending from 3 miles northwest of Medicine Mound to 10 miles northwest of Margaret to 11 miles southeast of Swearingen. Movement was southeast at 25 mph. HAZARD...Wind gusts of 40 mph and pea size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is possible. Locations impacted include...

At 744 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a cluster of strong thunderstorms near Toston, or 15 miles south of Townsend, moving north at 20 mph. HAZARD...Wind gusts of 40 to 50 mph and pea size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible. Locations impacted include... Townsend, Toston, and Radersburg. If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

At 705 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over Victor, or 12 miles north of Hamilton, moving northwest at 10 mph. HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph and half inch size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is possible. Locations impacted include... Victor, Woodside, Pinesdale and Bell Crossing. Monitor the weather situation closely and be alert for threatening weather conditions.