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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO

539 PM MDT SAT JUL 7 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  CENTRAL LARIMER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO



* UNTIL 745 PM MDT



* AT 539 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   

VERY HEAVY RAIN HAD FALLEN 10 MILES WEST OF MISHOWAKA...OR ABOUT 27 

MILES WEST OF FORT COLLINS. A LINE OF STORMS EXTENDS FROM AROUND 

CAMERON PASS TO RUSTIC.  THE STORMS PRODUCING THE HEAVY RAIN WERE 

MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.



CREEKS AND STREAMS THAT COULD BE IMPACTED BY THESE STORMS INCLUDE:  

SHEEP CREEK...BENNETT CREEK BOTH OF WHICH FEED INTO THE CACHE LA 

POUDRE RIVER.  RADAR ESTIMATES UP TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN 

NEAR HIGHWAY 14 ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF MISHOWAKA.  



LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO... 

MISHOWAKA AND RUSTIC.



A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. 

IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. 

RESIDENTS LIVING AND THOSE CAMPING ALONG THE CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER 

SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. 



DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN 

DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS ABANDON IT 

IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF 

CREEKS AND STREAMS...ROADS AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. THE HEAVY RAINS 

COULD ALSO TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES IN STEEP TERRAIN.



LAT...LON 4054 10579 4047 10577 4074 10528 4081 10540



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