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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT 

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO

825 PM MDT SAT JUL 14 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER IS CONTINUING THE FLASH 

FLOOD WARNING FOR PEOPLE IN SOUTHERN AND EASTERN LOGAN...EAST 

CENTRAL MORGAN AND NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO

UNTIL 850 PM MDT.



AT 815 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED

VERY HEAVY RAINFALL FROM THUNDERSTORMS IN A LINE FROM PROCTOR TO 

HILLROSE...OR FROM 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF STERLING TO 13 MILES EAST 

OF FORT MORGAN.  THE STORMS PRODUCING THE VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE 

MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.



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

ATWOOD...BRUSH...BURDETT...CROOK...FLEMING...HILLROSE...ILIFF...

MERINO...MIDWAY...PREWITT RESERVOIR...PROCTOR...SNYDER...

ST PETERSBURG AND TWIN BUTTES.



DOPPLER RADAR HAS ESTIMATED CLOSE TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN 

WITHIN THE PAST HOUR FROM STORMS PASSING OVER SOUTHERN LOGAN 

COUNTY...CENTERED APPROXIMATELY 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MERINO. 



SINCE 730 PM MDT...FLASH FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN AND AROUND 

STERLING...PADRONI AND ILIFF IN LOGAN COUNTY...AND IN BRUSH IN MORGAN 

COUNTY.  THE PUBLIC HAS ALSO REPORTED SEVERAL BRIEF FUNNEL CLOUDS IN 

THE PAST HOUR IN NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY...ALONG WITH PEA TO 

MARBLE SIZE HAIL.  



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH 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 FLASH FLOODING.



LAT...LON 4090 10311 4060 10323 4021 10375 4020 10297

          4045 10279 4047 10271 4092 10266

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