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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND JUNCTION CO
526 PM MDT SUN AUG 25 2024
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND JUNCTION HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN GRAND COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL UTAH...
NORTHERN SAN JUAN COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN UTAH...
* UNTIL 830 PM MDT.
* AT 526 PM MDT, DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE MILL CREEK AND NORTH MILL CREEK DRAINAGES
ABOVE MOAB AND SPANISH VALLEY, UT. BETWEEN 0.3 AND 0.6 INCHES OF
RAIN HAVE FALLEN. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 0.2 TO 0.5 INCHES
ARE POSSIBLE, WITH RAIN RATES BETWEEN 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR IN
THE WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS ONGOING OR EXPECTED TO BEGIN
SHORTLY THROUGH MILL CREEK AND EXPECTED TO REACH MOAB WITHIN AN
HOUR.
HAZARD...FLASH FLOODING CAUSED BY THUNDERSTORMS.
SOURCE...RADAR.
IMPACT...FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS, URBAN
AREAS, HIGHWAYS, STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS
OTHER POOR DRAINAGE AND LOW-LYING AREAS.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE...
MOAB AND SPANISH VALLEY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND, DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
REMAIN ALERT FOR FLOODING EVEN IN LOCATIONS NOT RECEIVING RAIN.
ARROYOS, STREAMS, AND RIVERS CAN BECOME RAGING CURRENTS IN A MATTER
OF MINUTES, EVEN FROM DISTANT RAINFALL.
FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE
YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS, RIVERS, OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME LIFE
THREATENING IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS AND HIKERS SHOULD AVOID STREAMS
OR CREEKS.
LAT...LON 3858 10958 3858 10953 3856 10937 3849 10937
3845 10945 3856 10958
FLASH FLOOD...RADAR INDICATED
EXPECTED RAINFALL RATE...1 INCH IN 1 HOUR
ERW
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