{"id":53504,"date":"2020-06-06T19:23:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T19:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/heavy-storms-sweep-through-four-corners\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T10:04:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:04:31","slug":"heavy-storms-sweep-through-four-corners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/heavy-storms-sweep-through-four-corners\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy storms sweep through Four Corners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=aefa22d7-57bd-44f0-ad56-bd367a09f64e&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1333\" height=\"719\" alt=\"Cars drive Main Street Saturday morning in the aftermath of a brief but intense storm that swept through downtown Cortez around 10:30 a.m.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Cars drive Main Street Saturday morning in the aftermath of a brief but intense storm that swept through downtown Cortez around 10:30 a.m.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Erika Alvero\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Severe storms have been sweeping through the Four Corners region Saturday, with flash flood advisories in effect at least through mid-afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Southeastern Utah appears to have received the brunt of the stormy weather, with reports of flooding and strong winds, and \u201cgolf-ball-sized hail\u201d near Bluff, said Dennis Phillips, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p>But the weather service also received reports of storms north of Cortez Saturday morning, and 67 mile per hour winds in Cortez Friday night, Phillips said.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy rains and wind drove through downtown Cortez for a brief but intense stint around 10:30 a.m. Saturday, with a few minutes of quarter-sized hail.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/alerts.weather.gov\/cap\/wwacapget.php?x=CO125F51F32BA0.%20FlashFloodWatch.125F51F53EE0CO.GJTFFAGJT.24f2d55f88894fde0845ac062efb8d4d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Weather Service<\/a>, a flash flood watch remains in effect through 4 p.m. Saturday in areas including the Animas River Basin, Four Corners\/Upper Dolores River, Northwestern San Juan Mountains, Paradox Valley\/Lower Dolores River, San Juan River Basin, and Southwest San Juan Mountains.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:ealvero@the-journal.com\">ealvero@the-journal.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>advisories in effect through mid-afternoon Saturday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,28,60,29,88],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-53504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter","tag-weather-news"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88302,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53504\/revisions\/88302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53504"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=53504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}