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SMALL STREAM FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO

218 PM MDT THU AUG 2 2001



...SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EXPIRES...



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ALLOWED THE SMALL STREAM FLOOD 

ADVISORY FOR PEOPLE IN EASTERN CLEAR CREEK COUNTY...GILPIN COUNTY 

AND NORTHWESTERN JEFFERSON COUNTY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. 



AT 200 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE 

STORMS THAT PRODUCED HEAVY RAIN OVER THE IDAHO SPRINGS AND CENTRAL 

CITY AREAS HAD WEAKENED AND MOVED NORTHEAST. 



LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED THAT THE NORTH FORK OF CLEAR CREEK 

SWELLED TO FOUR TIMES ITS NORMAL LEVEL AND IS NOW BEGINNING TO 

RECEDE.  SMALL TREES AND BRANCHES WERE ALSO REPORTED MOVING DOWN THE 

NORTH FORK OF CLEAR CREEK...NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAYS 119 

AND 6.  THESE TREES AND BRANCHES WILL CONTINUE MOVING DOWN CLEAR 

CREEK THIS AFTERNOON.  PEOPLE ON CLEAR CREEK SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR 

RAPID RISES ON CLEAR CREEK IN JEFFERSON COUNTY. 



THE HEAVY RAINS MAY ALSO TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES IN STEEP TERRAIN.



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