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SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO

1240 PM MDT THU AUG 2 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A SMALL STREAM

FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM MDT THURSDAY AFTERNOON FOR

PEOPLE IN



  EASTERN CLEAR CREEK COUNTY IN CENTRAL COLORADO

  GILPIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL COLORADO

  NORTHWESTERN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO



AT 1240 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 

HEAVY RAIN ACROSS EASTERN PORTIONS OF CLEAR CREEK AND ACROSS GILPIN 

COUNTY...ESPECIALLY AROUND CENTRAL CITY AND IDAHO SPRINGS. THE STORM 

PRODUCING THE HEAVY RAIN WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.



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

SPRINGS...BERGEN PARK...BLACK HAWK...BLUE VALLEY...BROOKVALE...

CENTRAL CITY...DUMONT...ECHO LAKE...EVERGREEN...FLOYD HILL...IDAHO

SPRINGS...KITTREDGE...ROLLINSVILLE AND TOLLAND.



LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT HAS REPORTED SOME STREET FLOODING IN CENTRAL 

CITY...WITH 4 INCHES DEEP OF WATER. IF THIS STORM REMAINS STATIONARY 

FOR A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF TIME...FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS MAY BE 

NEEDED.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM 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.



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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