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River Flood Warning 7, NWS Grand Junction, CO

June 2, 2008Gunnison County, Colorado

NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this river flood warning at Jun 2, 2008, 12:25 PM MDT for Gunnison County, Colorado. It took effect at Jun 3, 2008, 6:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 59 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 2, 2008, 12:25 PM MDT (18:25 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 3, 2008, 6:00 AM MDT
Expired: Jun 5, 2008, 4:31 PM MDT
In force: 59 hr
Issued by: NWS Grand Junction, CO

County Gunnison County, CO

The radar

The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The river

Written for the forecast point East River at Almont (ALEC2).

Action stage: 6.45 ft
Minor stage: 7 ft
Moderate stage: 8 ft
Major stage: 10 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 09112500, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river 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 river flood warning went out at Jun 1, 3:10 PM MDT, 21 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 3:10 PM MDT, 21 hours 15 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
Jun 2, 1:16 PM MDT	River Flood Advisory	GJT	Mesa	5 days
Jun 2, 1:16 PM MDT	River Flood Advisory	GJT	Eagle, Garfield	3 days
Jun 2, 1:16 PM MDT	River Flood Advisory	GJT	Eagle	3 days
Jun 2, 1:16 PM MDT	River Flood Advisory	GJT	Garfield	3 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Colorado, 2008 Every river 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; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.