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River Flood Advisory 2, NWS Grand Junction, CO

May 16, 2011Uintah County, Utah

NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this river flood advisory at May 16, 2011, 8:11 AM MDT for Uintah County, Utah. It took effect at May 18, 2011, 2:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 13 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 16, 2011, 8:11 AM MDT (14:11 UTC)
In effect from: May 18, 2011, 2:00 PM MDT
Expired: May 31, 2011, 6:00 PM MDT
In force: 13 days
Issued by: NWS Grand Junction, CO

County Uintah County, UT

The radar

The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:09 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 Green River at Jensen (JESU1). The gauge peaked at 10.80 ft at Jun 1, 2011, 6:00 PM MDT.

Action stage: 9 ft
Minor stage: 10.8 ft
Moderate stage: 12 ft
Major stage: 14 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 09261000, 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 advisory 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 advisory went out at May 15, 3:06 PM MDT, 17 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 15, 3:06 PM MDT, 17 hours 5 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
May 16, 5:05 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GJT	Moffat	20 days

Nearby

River Flood Advisories in Utah, 2011 Every river flood advisory in 2011

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.