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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND JUNCTION CO

330 PM MDT THU AUG 9 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND JUNCTION HAS ISSUED AN URBAN 

AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM MDT THIS 

AFTERNOON FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...



IN CENTRAL COLORADO

     NORTHWESTERN GUNNISON 

     SOUTHERN PITKIN



AT 330 PM MDT WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF 

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS SOUTHERN 

PITKIN COUNTY. THE STORMS ARE MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH AND WILL AFFECT 

SOUTHERN PITKIN COUNTY...INCLUDING ASPEN...AND NORTHWEST GUNNISON 

COUNTY...ALONG HIGHWAY 133...THROUGH 500 PM MDT.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS 

AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS AND NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND ARROYOS. IN 

ADDITION...THE HEAVY RAIN COULD ALSO TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES IN 

STEEP TERRAIN. PARTICULAR AREAS OF CONCERN INCLUDE...HIGHWAY 82 AND 

MAROON CREEK ROAD OUT OF ASPEN...AND HIGHWAY 133 TO SOMERSET.



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