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River Flood Warning 5, NWS Grand Junction, CO

June 7, 2011Mesa County, Colorado; Grand County, Utah

NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this river flood warning at Jun 7, 2011, 12:30 PM MDT for Mesa County, Colorado; Grand County, Utah. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 7, 2011, 12:30 PM MDT (18:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2011, 11:15 AM MDT
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Grand Junction, CO
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Mesa County, CO, Grand County, UT

The radar

The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Colorado River near State Line (CCUC2).

Action stage: 12.5 ft
Minor stage: 15 ft
Moderate stage: 16 ft
Major stage: 17 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 09163500, 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 6, 3:54 PM MDT, 20 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 3:54 PM MDT, 20 hours 36 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 7, 7:27 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GJT	Mesa	5 days
Jun 7, 8:10 AM MDT	River Flood Advisory	GJT	Mesa	6 days
Jun 7, 2:54 PM MDT	Red Flag Warning	GJT	Delta, Dolores, Gunnison, Hinsdale, La Plata, Montezuma and 3 more	30 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Colorado, 2011 River Flood Warnings in Utah, 2011 Every river flood warning 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.