Flash Flood in Rio Blanco County, Colorado

Flash Flood August 12, 2017 · Rio Blanco County, Colorado

$5K

Crop damage

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

What the National Weather Service wrote

Heavy rainfall, with radar estimates of nearly two inches of total rain within about an hour on the Roan Plateau, produced flash flooding several feet deep which came down drainages and ran across farm fields before ending up in Piceance Creek.

The wider storm

A very moist air mass where thunderstorms developed in a slow moving westerly flow resulted in heavy rainfall and flash flooding.

Began near Rio Blanco (39.8281, -108.1863).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 707699. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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