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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND JUNCTION CO

434 PM MDT TUE JUL 31 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND JUNCTION HAS ISSUED AN URBAN

AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM MDT TUESDAY

EVENING FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY



IN WEST CENTRAL COLORADO

     NORTHEASTERN MESA



AT 428 PM MDT WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY 

RAIN FROM SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS SOUTH AND EAST OF COLLBRAN...NEAR 

VEGA RESERVOIR. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL 

CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES...ESPECIALLY PLATEAU 

CREEK AND ITS TRIBUTARIES.  ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND 

FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING 

AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.  IN THE TOWN OF COLLBRAN...EXPECT 

STREET FLOODING AND FLOODING OF ROADSIDE CULVERTS. THE HEAVY RAINS 

COULD ALSO TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES IN STEEP TERRAIN.



IF YOU ARE IN THE PLATEAU CREEK BASIN...NEAR COLLBRAN OR VEGA 

RESERVOIR...CONSIDER MOVING TO HIGHER GROUND AS A PRECAUTION...BUT 

BE PREPARED TO MOVE QUICKLY TO HIGHER GROUND SHOULD THE WATER RISE 

RAPIDLY. 



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