MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE. Flash Flood Warning FLASH FLOOD WARNING COC069-131400- /O.EXT.KBOU.FF.W.0063.000000T0000Z-130913T1400Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 1245 AM MDT FRI SEP 13 2013 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS EXTENDED THE * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN LARIMER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO... * UNTIL 800 AM MDT FRIDAY * AT 1236 AM MDT...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED SEVERE FLASH FLOODING CONTINUING IN BIG THOMPSON CANYON AND THE CITY OF LOVELAND. FLOODING WAS ALSO OCCURRING ON THE LITTLE THOMPSON RIVER AND IN SMALLER DRAINAGES IN SOUTHEASTERN LARIMER COUNTY. THIS IS A FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY FOR THE BIG THOMPSON CANYON AND LOVELAND. SEEK HIGHER GROUND NOW! THIS IS A LIFE THREATENING SITUATION! * SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... LOVELAND...WINDSOR...ESTES PARK...BERTHOUD AND DRAKE. FLOOD WATERS ARE MOVING DOWN BIG THOMPSON CANYON FROM ESTES PARK INTO LOVELAND. THE FLOW CONTINUES TO INCREASE ON BOTH THE NORTH FORK AND THE MAIN STEM OF THE BIG THOMPSON RIVER. THE FLOW IN THE NORTH FORK OF THE BIG THOMPSON RIVER IS GREATER THAN IT WAS IN THE 1976 FLOOD. THE FLOW ON THE MAIN STEM IS THE LARGEST SINCE THAT FLOOD. FLOOD WATERS IN THE CANYON AND IN THE CITY OF LOVELAND WILL CONTINUE TO RISE THROUGH SUNRISE...AND FLOODING WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EASTWARD INTO WELD COUNTY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL UNLESS YOU ARE FLEEING AN AREA SUBJECT TO FLOODING OR UNDER AN EVACUATION ORDER. 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. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING.
Posted on: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 07:02:14 +0000
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