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SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO

415 PM MDT WED JUL 11 2001



...HEAVY RAINS CONTINUE AVER ELBERT COUNTY...



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER IS CONTINUING A SMALL STREAM 

FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM MDT WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON FOR 

PEOPLE IN NORTHEASTERN ELBERT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO.



AT 410 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 

HEAVY RAINS CONTINUING TO FALL FROM A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS 

STRETCHING WEST TO EAST ACROSS CENTRAL ELBERT COUNTY.  THE STORMS 

WITHIN THE LINE ARE MOVING EAST-NORTHEASTWARD AT 10 MPH BUT THE LINE 

ITSELF IS NEARLY STATIONARY.   



DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT 2.0 TO 4.0 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE 

FALLEN IN THE ADVISORY AREA SINCE 2 PM.  SOME STREAMS AND CREEKS 

WITHIN THE EFFECTED AREA INCLUDE...EAST BIJOU CREEK...REED 

CREEK...AND BLAND CREEK...ALL IN CENTRAL ELBERT COUNTY.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS COULD CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF 

CREEKS AND STREAMS...ROADS AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS.



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