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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND JUNCTION CO
714 PM MDT TUE AUG 26 2025
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND JUNCTION HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN DELTA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL COLORADO...
SOUTH CENTRAL MESA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL COLORADO...
NORTH CENTRAL MONTROSE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL COLORADO
INCLUDING THE SOWBELLY BURN SCAR...
* UNTIL 915 PM MDT.
* AT 714 PM MDT, DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. BETWEEN 0.2 AND 0.7 INCHES OF
RAIN HAVE FALLEN. THE EXPECTED RAINFALL RATE IS 0.5 TO 1.5 INCHES
IN 1 HOUR. FLASH FLOODING IS ONGOING OR EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
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. BURN AREAS OF
THE SOWBELLY COULD ALSO BE IMPACTED.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE...
ESCALANTE FORK AND THE SOWBELLY BURN SCAR.
THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING STREAMS AND DRAINAGES...
COTTONWOOD CREEK, ESCALANTE CREEK, BRANCH CREEK, GUNNISON RIVER,
ROSE CREEK, MIDDLE FORK ESCALANTE CREEK, DRY FORK ESCALANTE CREEK,
EAST FORK ESCALANTE CREEK, KELSO CREEK, SOUTH FORK MESA CREEK AND
NORTH FORK ESCALANTE CREEK.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND, DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.
MOVE AWAY FROM RECENTLY BURNED AREAS. LIFE-THREATENING FLOODING OF
CREEKS, ROADS AND NORMALLY DRY ARROYOS IS LIKELY. THE HEAVY RAINS
WILL LIKELY TRIGGER ROCKSLIDES, MUDSLIDES AND DEBRIS FLOWS IN STEEP
TERRAIN, ESPECIALLY IN AND AROUND THESE AREAS.
LAT...LON 3859 10855 3861 10846 3863 10845 3864 10848
3871 10839 3876 10826 3875 10825 3865 10826
3853 10837 3854 10840 3849 10844 3851 10845
3851 10849 3853 10846 3856 10850 3852 10859
3853 10862
FLASH FLOOD...RADAR INDICATED
EXPECTED RAINFALL RATE...0.5-1.5 INCHES IN 1 HOUR
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