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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND JUNCTION CO

710 PM MDT FRI AUG 3 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND JUNCTION HAS ISSUED AN URBAN

AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM MDT FRIDAY

EVENING FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES



IN NORTHWEST COLORADO

     SOUTHWESTERN MOFFAT AND WESTERN RIO BLANCO



AT 700 PM MDT WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY 

RAIN 3 MILES SOUTH OF RANGELY ALONG HIGHWAY 139 AND DOUGLAS CREEK.

RAINFALL RATES FROM NEARLY STATIONARY THUNDERSTORMS WERE ESTIMATED 

AT 1.25 TO 1.5 INCHES AN HOUR.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL 

CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES...SPECIFIALLY DOUGLAS 

CREEK AND ITS TRIBUTARIES...AND HIGHWAY 130 NEAR RANGELY.  COUNTRY 

ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS...ROADSIDE 

CULVERTS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.  THE 

HEAVY RAIN COULD ALSO TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES IN STEEP TERRAIN.



DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE

ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS

SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.

MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.



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