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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
543 PM MDT TUE SEP 16 2025
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BACA CO-
543 PM MDT TUE SEP 16 2025
...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING
FOR NORTHWESTERN BACA COUNTY...
AT 543 PM MDT, DOPPLER RADAR SHOWS THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT PRODUCED
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA HAVE MOVED OFF TO THE EAST.
BETWEEN 1 AND 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN. FLOODING IMPACTS WILL
CONTINUE, BUT NO ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS EXPECTED. FLASH FLOODING MAY
BE ONGOING.
HAZARD...FLASH FLOODING CAUSED BY THUNDERSTORMS.
SOURCE...RADAR.
IMPACT...FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS, URBAN AREAS,
HIGHWAYS, STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER POOR
DRAINAGE AND LOW-LYING AREAS.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE...
PRITCHETT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND, DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
REMAIN ALERT FOR FLOODING EVEN IN LOCATIONS NOT RECEIVING RAIN.
ARROYOS, STREAMS, AND RIVERS CAN BECOME RAGING KILLER CURRENTS IN A
MATTER OF MINUTES, EVEN FROM DISTANT RAINFALL.
PLEASE REPORT OBSERVED FLOODING TO LOCAL EMERGENCY SERVICES OR LAW
ENFORCEMENT AND REQUEST THEY PASS THIS INFORMATION TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.
LAT...LON 3738 10276 3733 10304 3744 10305 3760 10268
3746 10264
FLASH FLOOD...RADAR INDICATED
KAM
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