Flood Advisory
NWS Grand Junction CO ยท US
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Details
Flood Advisory In Effect Until 8 PM MDT This Evening
- Event
- Flood Advisory
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Expected end
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Expected
- Severity
- Minor
- Certainty
- Likely
- Response
- Avoid
Description
What
Urban area and small stream flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
Where
South Central Garfield County in west central Colorado...
When
Until 800 PM MDT.
Impacts
Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Additional details
- At 456 PM MDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to training thunderstorms. This will cause urban and small stream flooding. Between 0.4 and 0.7 inches of rain have fallen. Rainfall rates of 1 to 2 inches an hour are possible. - Some locations that will experience flooding include... Rifle. - http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Instructions
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood deaths occur in vehicles.
Affected areas
- Garfield County, CO
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Grand Junction CO
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~27s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M2P72RNSC411S416GAKGWV5Z
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.679534e4ae5ede1e2a98658b7f575fcd49f2a3a2.001.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Scope
- Public
- CAP source
- 211803 v2.3.0
- Handling codes
- IPAWSv1.0
- Issuing office
- NWS Grand Junction CO
- AWIPS ID
- CAPGJT
- NWWS sequence
- nwws_processor.8019
- WMO heading
- XOUS55
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- United States (US)
- WMO bulletin number
- 55
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | NWS |
| NationalWeatherService | FAY |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | FLSGJT |
| WMOidentifier | WGUS85 KGJT 162258 |
| NWSheadline | FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| VTEC | /O.NEW.KGJT.FA.Y.0093.260916T2258Z-260917T0200Z/ |
| eventEndingTime | 2026-09-16T20:00:00-06:00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Garfield County, CO
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 008045 |
| UGC | COC045 |
- Polygons
- 39.37,-107.95 39.37,-107.8 39.57,-107.67 39.57,-107.81 39.37,-107.95