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Air Quality Alert Message
Shelby County Health Department
Relayed by National Weather Service Memphis TN
451 PM CDT Sat Jun 15 2024

...Code Red Ozone Health Advisory in effect until Sunset...

The Shelby County Health Department has issued a Code Red Ozone
Health Advisory effective for Shelby County Tennessee, Crittenden
County Arkansas, and DeSoto County Mississippi, including the City
of Memphis that will remain in effect until sunset. This ozone health
advisory is due to monitored ozone values that have reached unhealthy
levels. These values have exceeded the Environmental Protection
Agency`s federal safe health standard. The Shelby County Health
Department strongly recommends that active children and adults, and
people with respiratory disease, such as asthma, avoid prolonged
outdoor exertion. All others should limit prolonged outdoor
exertion. Please continue to check the latest air quality forecasts
and updates until monitored values return to safe levels. For more
information go to www.airnow.gov.

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