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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND JUNCTION CO

959 PM MDT SAT SEP 7 2002



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND JUNCTION HAS ISSUED AN URBAN

AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 PM MDT SATURDAY

EVENING FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES



IN CENTRAL COLORADO

     WEST CENTRAL PITKIN AND NORTHWESTERN GUNNISON



IN WEST CENTRAL COLORADO

     EXTREME NORTHEASTERN DELTA



AT 943 PM MDT WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY 

RAIN MOVING EAST TOWARDS HIGHWAY 131 NEAR MCCLURE PASS. OVER HALF AN 

INCH OF RAIN MAY FALL IN LESS THAN 30 MINUTES. SHOWERS WILL DIMINISH 

AFTER 11:00 PM MDT. ROADWAYS VULNERABLE TO FLOODING INCLUDE HIGHWAY 

131 NEAR MCCLURE PASS...FOREST ROAD 314 TO MARBLE...AND FOREST RAOD 

265 ALONG MUDDY CREEK. 





EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS

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

WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. NEVER DRIVE 

THROUGH RUNNING WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH.

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