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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO

419 PM MDT SUN AUG 5 2001



A SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM MDT

SUNDAY EVENING FOR



  FREMONT COUNTY



AT 415 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED 

THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN REDEVELOPING OVER FREMONT COUNTY 

JUST SOUTH OF CANON CITY. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT 2 TO 2.5 

INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ALONG OAK CREEK NORTHWEST OF ROCKVALE...OR 

ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTH OF CANON CITY. THE HEAVY RAIN WILL CAUSE QUICK 

RISES IN OAK AND MILL CREEKS THAT FLOW INTO THE ARKANSAS RIVER. 



OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN HAD ALSO DEVELOPED FARTHER 

WEST...IN THE VICINITY OF COTOPAXI.  



SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO REDEVELOP AND MOVE SLOWLY 

WESTWARD AT LESS THAN 5 MPH ACROSS FREMONT COUNTY THROUGH 6 PM.  



WATCH FOR ROCKSLIDES AND MUDSLIDES IN STEEP TERRAIN...ESPECIALLY 

ALONG AND SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 50.  WHEN DRIVING...SLOW DOWN IN HEAVY 

RAIN TO AVOID HITTING ROCKS AND MUD ON THE ROADWAY.

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