Flash Flood Watch for Jeffco & ParkCO from Noon thru Evening

Flash Flood Watch

FLOOD WATCH
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
421 AM MDT TUE MAY 5 2015

...MORE SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY
RAINFALL TODAY...

.A DEEP PLUME OF MOISTURE COMBINED WITH AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE
WILL BRING NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS TO NORTHEAST
AND NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO TODAY. THE UNSEASONABLY HIGH AMOUNTS OF
MOISTURE IN THE ATMOSPHERE WILL ALLOW SHOWERS AND STORMS TO
PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL. THE GROUND WAS BECOMING MORE SATURATED
ESPECIALLY IN AREAS THAT SAW HEAVY RAIN LAST NIGHT...FROM THE
FOOTHILLS OF BOULDER AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES INTO THE PALMER DIVIDE
AREA EXTENDING EAST TOWARD LIMON.

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LARIMER AND BOULDER COUNTIES BETWEEN 6000 AND 9000 FEET-
JEFFERSON AND WEST DOUGLAS COUNTIES ABOVE 6000 FEET/GILPIN/CLEAR
CREEK/NORTHEAST PARK COUNTIES BELOW 9000 FEET-
ELBERT/CENTRAL AND EAST DOUGLAS COUNTIES ABOVE 6000 FEET-
NORTH AND NORTHEAST ELBERT COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET/NORTH LINCOLN
COUNTY-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ESTES PARK...GLENDEVEY...NEDERLAND...
RED FEATHER LAKES...BAILEY...CENTRAL CITY...EVERGREEN...
GEORGETOWN...IDAHO SPRINGS...WESTCREEK...CASTLE ROCK...ELBERT...
FONDIS...KIOWA...LARKSPUR...AGATE...HUGO...LIMON...MATHESON
421 AM MDT TUE MAY 5 2015

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM NOON MDT TODAY THROUGH THIS
EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL COLORADO...EAST
CENTRAL COLORADO...NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO AND NORTHEAST
COLORADO...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING AREAS...IN CENTRAL
COLORADO...JEFFERSON AND WEST DOUGLAS COUNTIES ABOVE 6000
FEET/GILPIN/CLEAR CREEK/NORTHEAST PARK COUNTIES BELOW 9000
FEET. IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...NORTH AND NORTHEAST ELBERT
COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET/NORTH LINCOLN COUNTY. IN NORTH CENTRAL
COLORADO...LARIMER AND BOULDER COUNTIES BETWEEN 6000 AND 9000
FEET. IN NORTHEAST COLORADO...ELBERT/CENTRAL AND EAST DOUGLAS
COUNTIES ABOVE 6000 FEET.

* FROM NOON MDT TODAY THROUGH THIS EVENING

* RAIN SHOWERS WILL BECOME MORE NUMEROUS AND HEAVIER LATE THIS
MORNING INTO THE AFTERNOON HOURS. THE HEAVIER SHOWERS AND A FEW
EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING UP TO 1.5
INCHES OF RAIN IN AN HOUR...AND HEAVIER AMOUNTS WILL BE POSSIBLE
WITH PERSISTENT SHOWERS AND STORMS. THIS WOULD PRODUCE FLASH
FLOODING ESPECIALLY IN AREAS THAT SAW MORE SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL
LAST NIGHT. THIS INCLUDES THE FOOTHILLS...FRONT RANGE BURN
SCARS...AND PALMER DIVIDE AREA ACROSS MUCH OF DOUGLAS AND ELBERT
COUNTIES.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS MAY DEVELOP THAT LEAD
TO FLASH FLOODING. FLASH FLOODING IS A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION.

YOU SHOULD MONITOR LATER FORECASTS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION
SHOULD FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS BE ISSUED.