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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Grand Junction, CO

August 7, 2008Rio Blanco County, Colorado

NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 7, 2008, 9:33 PM MDT for Rio Blanco County, Colorado. It was in force for 116 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 7, 2008, 9:33 PM MDT (03:33 UTC)
Expired: Aug 7, 2008, 11:29 PM MDT
In force: 116 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Junction, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Rio Blanco County, CO

The radar

The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Grand Junction, CO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Aug 7, 8:49 PM MDT, 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 8:49 PM MDT, 44 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 7, 8:44 PM MDT, 49 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 7, 6:44 PM MDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Grand Junction, CO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 8, 4:30 AM MDT	Flash Flood Watch	GJT	Archuleta, Delta, Dolores, Eagle, Garfield, Gunnison and 12 more	17 hr
Aug 8, 4:03 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GJT	Montrose	3 hr
Aug 8, 4:32 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GJT	Garfield, Rio Blanco	3 hr
Aug 8, 3:10 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GJT	Uintah	3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Colorado, 2008 Every flash flood warning in 2008

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.