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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND JUNCTION CO

605 PM MDT THU AUG 16 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND JUNCTION HAS ISSUED AN URBAN

AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM MDT THURSDAY

EVENING FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES



IN SOUTHEAST UTAH

     NORTHERN SAN JUAN



IN EAST CENTRAL UTAH

     SOUTHERN GRAND



AT 600 PM MDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN 

WITH THUNDERSTORMS MOVING SOUTHEAST ACROSS SOUTHERN GRAND AND 

NORTHERN SAN JUAN COUNTIES. AREAS AFFECTED INCLUDE...MOAB...LA SAL 

...ARCHES NATIONAL PARK...AND CANYONLANDS NATIONAL PARK.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF CREEKS AND

STREAMS...ROADS AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. THE HEAVY RAINS MAY ALSO

TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES IN STEEP TERRAIN.



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