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At 808 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near Rifle, or 26 miles west of Glenwood Springs, moving east at 30 mph. HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and penny size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation and outdoor objects is possible. Locations impacted include... Rifle and Silt. This includes the following highways... Interstate 70 in Colorado between mile markers 83 and 102. Colorado 13 between mile markers 1 and 4. If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
Where it happened
Roan and Tavaputs Plateaus; Debeque to Silt Corridor; Grand and Battlement Mesas · 39.533°, -108.107°
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- official severity
- Moderate
- urgency
- Expected
- certainty
- Observed
- event
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- areas
- Roan and Tavaputs Plateaus; Debeque to Silt Corridor; Grand and Battlement Mesas; Gore and Elk Mountains/Central Mountain Valleys
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Incident timeline
At 808 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near Rifle, or 26 miles west of Glenwood Springs, moving east at 30 mph. HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and penny size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation and outdoor objects is possible. Locations impacted include... Rifle and Silt. This includes the following highways... Interstate 70 in Colorado between mile markers 83 and 102. Colorado 13 between mile markers 1 and 4. If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
At 721 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along a line extending from 22 miles west of Rifle to 10 miles northwest of Parachute to 23 miles northwest of Collbran to 10 miles northwest of De Beque. Movement was east at 25 mph. HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and penny size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation and outdoor objects is possible. Locations impacted include... Parachute and Battlement Mesa. This includes the following highways... Interstate 70 in Colorado between mile markers 67 and 82. Colorado 13 between mile markers 11 and 13. If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. Torrential rainfall is also occurring with these storms and may lead to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.