{"id":2448453,"date":"2019-09-08T09:24:28","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T15:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=312552"},"modified":"2019-09-08T09:24:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T15:24:28","slug":"flash-flood-watch-issued-for-lake-christine-fire-burn-area-heavy-rainfall-predicted-sunday-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/flash-flood-watch-issued-for-lake-christine-fire-burn-area-heavy-rainfall-predicted-sunday-afternoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash flood watch issued for Lake Christine Fire burn area; \u2018heavy rainfall\u2019 predicted Sunday afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Watches and warnings issued Sunday.<\/strong>
National Weather Service<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Concerns over \u201cpersistent and heavy rainfall\u201d Sunday afternoon in the Basalt area have caused the National Weather Service to issue a flash flood watch for the area around the Lake Christine Fire burn scar.<\/p>\n

The NWS office in Grand Junction issued the watch for noon to 6 p.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe potential for heavy rainfall over the Lake Christine burn scar is of particular concern due to the threat of debris flows and flash flooding,\u201d according to the watch issued Sunday morning. \u201cResidents near this wildfire burn scar and north of the Highway 82 corridor near Basalt and El Jebel should prepare for potential flooding impacts.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Aug. 4, a storm that stalled<\/a> over the southern third of the burn area on Basalt Mountain caused flash flood that damaged roads and minor damage to homes near old town Basalt. It dropped nearly 1.5 inches of rain in a few hours.<\/p>\n

It was the most significant flooding since the fire that started July 3, 2018, and burned more than 12,500 acres on Basalt Mountain.<\/p>\n

The weather outlook Sunday for western Colorado calls for widespread showers and thunderstorms as a \u201cstrong disturbance\u201d moves of the area.<\/p>\n

\u201cPersistent and occasionally heavy rainfall may result in flash flooding or debris flows from recent burn scars, in particular, the Lake Christine and 416 Fire (near Durango) burn scars,\u201d the NWS forecast Sunday morning. \u201cIn addition, strong outflow winds associated with thunderstorms could gust as high as 50 mph.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Sunday forecast for Basalt predicts a high near 78 degrees and an 80% chance for precipitation in the afternoon and into the early evening.<\/p>\n

This is a developing story that will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Watches and warnings issued Sunday.National Weather Service Concerns over \u201cpersistent and heavy rainfall\u201d Sunday afternoon in the Basalt area have caused the National Weather Service to issue a flash flood watch for the area around the Lake Christine Fire burn scar. The NWS office in Grand Junction issued the watch for noon to 6 p.m. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2448453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 09:02:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}