Flash Flood — Montrose, Colorado

2015-06-11 · near Olathe, Montrose, Colorado

Event narrative

A normally dry wash quickly filled and ran at bankfull conditions due to runoff from heavy rainfall.

Wider weather episode

The remnants of an Eastern Pacific tropical weather system brought a large amount of moisture to the intermountain west during the second week of June. This moisture led to widespread precipitation, some from heavy rainfall producing thunderstorms, which in turn produced areas of flooding across portions of Western Colorado on June 11th.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 612658. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.