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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND JUNCTION CO

552 PM MDT THU AUG 29 2002



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND JUNCTION HAS ISSUED AN URBAN

AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM MDT THURSDAY 

EVENING FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...



IN WEST CENTRAL COLORADO

     CENTRAL MESA



AT 552 PM MDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 

WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN MOVING OVER THE REDLANDS AND THE SOUTH SIDE OF 

GRAND JUNCTION...INCLUDING ORCHARD MESA. GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH WILL 

OCCUR WITH THE STORMS AS THEY MOVE EAST AT 25 MPH.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THE HEAVY RAIN WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL 

CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. IN ADDITION...RUNOFF 

FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS...ROADS 

AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. THE HEAVY RAINS COULD ALSO TRIGGER ROCK AND 

MUDSLIDES IN STEEP TERRAIN.



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