Flood Advisory
NWS Grand Junction CO ยท US
Details
Flood Advisory In Effect Until 130 AM MDT Thursday
- Event
- Flood Advisory
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Expected end
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Expected
- Severity
- Minor
- Certainty
- Likely
- Response
- Avoid
Description
What
Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
Where
Western Garfield County in west central Colorado...
When
Until 130 AM MDT.
Impacts
Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas. Water over roadways.
Additional details
- At 1026 PM MDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly in the advisory area. Between 0.8 and 1.2 inches of rain have fallen. - Additional rainfall amounts of 0.4 to 0.8 inches are expected over the area. This additional rain will result in minor flooding. - Some locations that will experience flooding include... Highway 139 between mile markers 13 and 27. - http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Instructions
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood deaths occur in vehicles. Please report observed flooding to local emergency services or law enforcement and request they pass this information to the National Weather Service when you can do so safely.
Affected areas
- Garfield County, CO
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Grand Junction CO
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~35s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M2PSZ8GFNH5TP56P5RD9Y5N0
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.1253f66521411be07e9f12001fb07b49cf3f47c4.001.1
- 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.6378
- 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 170428 |
| NWSheadline | FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 130 AM MDT THURSDAY |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| VTEC | /O.NEW.KGJT.FA.Y.0099.260917T0428Z-260917T0730Z/ |
| eventEndingTime | 2026-09-17T01:30:00-06:00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Garfield County, CO
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 008045 |
| UGC | COC045 |
- Polygons
- 39.52,-108.79 39.5,-108.72 39.37,-108.79 39.37,-108.87 39.52,-108.79