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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO

440 PM MDT THU JUN 27 2002



A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR



  EAST CENTRAL PARK COUNTY

  SOUTHWESTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY

  SOUTHWESTERN JEFFERSON COUNTY



UNTIL 515 PM MDT.



AT 440 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 

THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN 16 MILES SOUTH OF CHEESMAN 

RESERVOIR...OR ABOUT 27 MILES WEST OF COLORADO SPRINGS. THE STORM 

PRODUCING THE HEAVY RAIN WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH.  RAIN WAS NOW 

DECREASING IN THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE HAYMAN BURN AREA.



LOCATIONS REMAINING IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...BUT ARE NOT LIMITED 

TO...CHEESMAN RESERVOIR AND THE HAYMAN BURN AREA.



A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. 

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN 

DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS ABANDON IT 

IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND.



DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT AROUND ONE HALF TO ONE INCH OF RAIN 

FELL IN THE PARK COUNTY PORTION OF THE BURN AREA AND ALONG THE 

BORDER BETWEEN TELLER AND PARK COUNTIES BETWEEN 315 AND 415 PM.

THE MAIN AREA AFFECTED BY RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL BE THE SOUTH 

PLATTE RIVER ABOVE CHEESMAN RESERVOIR AND SMALL TRIBUTARIES TO THE 

SOUTH PLATTE IN PARK AND TELLER COUNTIES.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS

AND STREAMS...ROADS AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. THE HEAVY RAINS COULD ALSO

TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES IN STEEP TERRAIN.



LAT...LON 3930 10539 3908 10543 3903 10534 3913 10523

          3935 10517



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