BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
1250 PM MDT SAT SEP 14 2013
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
WEST CENTRAL JEFFERSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO...
SOUTHEASTERN CLEAR CREEK COUNTY IN CENTRAL COLORADO...
* UNTIL 345 PM MDT
* AT 1248 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN NEAR BROOKVALE. BETWEEN ONE HALF AND ONE INCH OF RAIN
HAS ALREADY FALLEN...WITH ANOTHER ONE HALF TO ONE INCH EXPECTED AS
IT MOVES SLOWLY NORTHEAST TOWARD EVERGREEN AND GENESEE. FLASH
FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... EVERGREEN...KITTREDGE...BROOKVALE...BERGEN PARK...INDIAN HILLS AND
ASPEN PARK.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS
AND STREAMS...ROADS AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. THE HEAVY RAINS COULD
ALSO TRIGGER ROCK SLIDES OR DEBRIS FLOWS IN STEEP TERRAIN.
TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
