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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO

640 PM MDT THU AUG 30 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND SMALL

STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM MDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR

CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF COLORADO SPRINGS.



AT 635 PM MDT WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY 

RAIN FALLING ACROSS CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY...WITH A LINE OF SLOW 

MOVING THUNDERSTORMS FROM DOWNTOWN COLORADO SPRINGS...SOUTHEAST 

ACROSS PETERSON AFB TO 10 MILES EAST OF FOUNTAIN. THESE STORMS ARE 

MOVING NORTH TO NORTHEAST AROUND 10 MPH...WITH DOPPLER RADAR 

ESTIMATES OF 1 1/2 TO 2 1/2 INCHES OF RAIN ACROSS THE AREA WITHIN 

THE PAST HOUR. HAM RADIO REPORTS SOME MINOR STREET FLOODING IN THE 

WIDEFIELD AND SECURITY AREAS...AS WELL AS ACROSS PORTIONS OF 

SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO SPRINGS. 



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS 

WHICH RUN INTO FOUNTAIN CREEK TO RUN HIGH...ESPECIALLY SAND AND SAND 

CANYON CREEKS. 



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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