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SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO

439 PM MDT TUE JUL 24 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A SMALL STREAM

FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM MDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR PEOPLE

IN



  EASTERN CLEAR CREEK COUNTY IN CENTRAL COLORADO



AT 439 PM MDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED MINOR FLOODING NEAR EMPIRE...OR 

ABOUT 36 MILES WEST OF DENVER. THE STORM PRODUCING THE HEAVY RAIN WAS

MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH...AND WILL MOVE ACROSS INTERSTATE 70 

BETWEEN GEORGETOWN AND IDAHO SPRINGS.



LOCATIONS IN THE ADVISORY INCLUDE...BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...BLUE

VALLEY...BROOKVALE...DUMONT...ECHO LAKE...EMPIRE...GEORGETOWN AND

IDAHO SPRINGS.



DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT AS MUCH AS 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN 

FROM THIS STORM IN THE LAST HOUR NEAR EMPIRE.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE MINOR FLOODING OF CREEKS

AND STREAMS...ROADS AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. THE HEAVY RAINS COULD ALSO

TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES IN STEEP TERRAIN.



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