Flash Flood in Chaffee County, Colorado

Flash Flood August 2, 2007 – August 3, 2007 · Chaffee County, Colorado

$2.0M

Damage as recorded

Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Very heavy rain saturated quartz monzonite soil...and the soil and boulders flowed down to the Chalk Creek Canyon floor and County Road 162.

The wider storm

Thunderstorms produced very heavy rain in west central Chaffee County. The hardest hit area was in and around Alpine. Mud flows from the south slope of Mt. Princeton were up to six feet deep...causing damage and destruction of roads and houses. People were evacuated to Buena Vista...and no one was seriously hurt. Clean up took several days.

Began near Alpine (38.7100, -106.2900).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 56823. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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