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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND JUNCTION CO

555 PM MDT TUE AUG 6 2002



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND JUNCTION HAS ISSUED AN URBAN

AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM MDT TUESDAY 

EVENING FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...



IN NORTHWEST COLORADO

     CENTRAL RIO BLANCO.



AT 555 PM MDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG 

THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN MOVING NORTH ACROSS HIGHWAY 13. 

TOWNS AFFECTED BY THIS HEAVY RAIN INCLUDE...RIO BLANCO...MEEKER AND 

BUFORD.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF THE HEAVY RAIN WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS 

AND STREAMS...ESPECIALLY PICEANCE AND FOURTEEN MILE CREEK. COUNTRY 

ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS 

WILL ALSO POSE A THREAT OF FLOODING.



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

IN STEEP TERRAIN.



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