Flash Flood — Kiowa, Colorado

2019-06-17 · near Chivington, Kiowa, Colorado

Event narrative

Portions of CO 96, near CR 49, have been washed out due to heavy rain and flash flooding.

Wider weather episode

A very active severe weather day across portions of the eastern Colorado plains on June 17th. Several supercells developed in Kiowa County and remained nearly stationary producing areas of flash flooding and tornadoes with large hail.

Farther south, large hail was reported near Pueblo and Pinon. Largest hail reported was tennis ball size right before the storm hit downtown Pueblo. Winds gusted to near 70 MPH with small hail at the Pueblo County Memorial Airport, just east of the NWS Pueblo forecast office.

Severe wind gusts continued into southeast Colorado with several reports of 65+ MPH in Baca and Otero Counties.

View location on OpenStreetMap → (38.4400, -102.5900)

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 838793. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.