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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
608 PM MDT WED JUL 30 2025
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
EAST CENTRAL COSTILLA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO...
SOUTH CENTRAL HUERFANO COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO...
WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO...
* UNTIL 915 PM MDT.
* AT 608 PM MDT, DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES OF RAIN
HAVE FALLEN. THE EXPECTED RAINFALL RATE IS 1.5 TO 2.5 INCHES IN 1
HOUR. FLASH FLOODING IS ONGOING OR EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
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...
LA VETA, SPANISH PEAKS, CUCHARA PASS, CUCHARA, INDIAN CREEK ON THE
SOUTHEASTERN SPRING BURN SCAR, SPRING BURN SCAR SOUTH OF HIGHWAY
160 IN HUERFANO COUNTY AND SOUTHEASTERN SPRING BURN SCAR SOUTH OF
HIGHWAY 160 IN COSTILLA COUNTY.
THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGH RISK LOCATIONS...
SULPHUR SPRINGS ON INDIAN CREEK AND COUNTY ROAD 421 NEAR INDIAN
CREEK.
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.
MOVE AWAY FROM RECENTLY BURNED AREAS. LIFE-THREATENING FLOODING OF
CREEKS, ROADS AND NORMALLY DRY ARROYOS IS LIKELY. THE HEAVY RAINS
WILL LIKELY TRIGGER ROCKSLIDES, MUDSLIDES AND DEBRIS FLOWS IN STEEP
TERRAIN, ESPECIALLY IN AND AROUND THESE AREAS.
LAT...LON 3747 10524 3760 10481 3747 10470 3738 10480
3727 10505 3730 10529
FLASH FLOOD...RADAR INDICATED
EXPECTED RAINFALL RATE...1.5-2.5 INCHES IN 1 HOUR
MG
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