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SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO

607 PM MDT THU JUL 26 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A SMALL STREAM

FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM MDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR PEOPLE

IN



  NORTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO

  SOUTHEASTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO



AT 607 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 

BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN FROM 11 MILES SOUTH OF THURMAN 

TO COPE...OR FROM 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF LIMON TO 37 MILES SOUTHEAST 

OF AKRON. THE STORMS PRODUCING THE HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING EAST AT 10 

MPH.



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

ARICKAREE SCHOOL...COPE AND THURMAN.



DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT BETWEEN TWO AND THREE AND A HALF INCHES 

OF RAIN HAS FALLEN FROM THESE STORMS SINCE 5 PM. 



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE MINOR FLOODING OF SMALL

CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND

ARROYOS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.



DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE 

ROADWAY.  THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS

SAFELY.  VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED 

QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.



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