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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO

745 PM MDT WED MAY 16 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND SMALL 

STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY...EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM MDT WEDNESDAY EVENING 

FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY



IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

     CENTRAL PUEBLO



AT 740 PM MDT WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY 

RAIN OVER CENTRAL PUEBLO COUNTY...FROM PUEBLO TO BLENDE TO AVONDALE 

TO BOONE.   THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 10 

MPH...AND WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL IN 

A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.   AS SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS MOVE OVER THE 

SAME AREA...STORM TOTAL PRECIPITATION COULD REACH 1 TO 3 INCHES.  

COMMUNITIES THAT WILL SEE THE VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE PUEBLO... 

AVONDALE...BLENDE...AND BOONE ALONG HIGHWAY 50 THROUGH 945 PM.      



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS

AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS

AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW

LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.

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