553 first-hand accounts of flood events in Colorado, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Heavy rain associated with a wet microbursts, produced over 3 inches of rain in 90 minutes across southeast Denver. In Denver, some underpasses were flooded with several feet of water which stranded motorists.
Read the full account →A closed low propagated from SW CONUS and rapidly intensified over the southeast Colorado plains. A combination of strong lift due to the rapidly intensifying cyclone and orographic lift created heavy snow over the mountains.
Read the full account →Heavy rain caused numerous mud, rock, and debris flows in the Missionary Ridge burned area. The Animas River Valley was hit the hardest with mud and debris up to 6 feet deep which covered portions of County Road 250 in the Haflin Creek, Stevens Creek, and Kroeger Canyon areas.
Read the full account →There were two areas of flash flooding documented in southwest Mesa County during the early morning hours. One area of flash flooding occurred across a quarter mile section of Highway 141 about 10 miles south-southeast of Gateway.
Read the full account →In Evergreen, a man suffered minor injuries when he was struck by lightning. It entered his finger, traveled down his body, and exited his foot. Heavy rain caused flash flooding over south Denver and its nearby suburbs.
Read the full account →In Evergreen, a man suffered minor injuries when he was struck by lightning. It entered his finger, traveled down his body, and exited his foot. Heavy rain caused flash flooding over south Denver and its nearby suburbs.
Read the full account →Heavy rain caused flash flooding in Greeley. Many roads in and around town were either flooded or washed out. Floodwaters along 10th Street, the main thoroughfare in Greeley, had anywhere from 1 to 3 feet of water covering the roadway.
Read the full account →Several landspout tornadoes developed along a boundary to the southeast of the Denver metropolitan area. In northwest Elbert County, minor damage was reported. The damage consisted of downed power lines, broken windows and a damaged out building.
Read the full account →Several landspout tornadoes developed along a boundary to the southeast of the Denver metropolitan area. In northwest Elbert County, minor damage was reported. The damage consisted of downed power lines, broken windows and a damaged out building.
Read the full account →Severe thunderstorms produced damaging winds, large hail and flash flooding across parts of Larimer, Lincoln, Morgan and Washington Counties. Strong thunderstorm wind gusts to 83 mph were reported in Morgan County, near Brush. Several small trees and power lines were downed.
Read the full account →A large complex of thunderstorms swept across Northeast Colorado producing very large damaging hail, intense thunderstorm winds as well as a couple of weak tornadoes. Large hail, from 1 to 3 inches in diameter, caused extensive damage to cropland, homes and vehicles.
Read the full account →Severe thunderstorms produced damaging winds and large hail, ranging in size from quarters to baseballs. The hail reportedly piled up to 8 inches deep in Elbert County where the largest hail was observed.
Read the full account →Significant flash flooding occurred at Drowsy Water Ranch and along Highway 125. Significant impacts were observed on County Road 219, from the ranch down to Highway 40. The main office had debris into the building.
Read the full account →Rapid melting of a heavy snowpack resulted in flooding along rivers and streams at various locations in La Plata County. Flooding of low lying areas along the Florida River, including driveways and lawns, occurred in the vicinity of County Road 248, about 6 miles northeast of…
Read the full account →A large area of rainfall slowly progressed east across East Central CO beginning in the late afternoon. The first wave of rainfall included hail up to dime size that was reported north-northwest of Flagler. Rain rates of over two inches per hour were reported near Flagler.
Read the full account →During the afternoon hours on the 6th, isolated storms developed over Eastern Colorado and evolved into a line of storms that moved east into Northwest Kansas through the night.
Read the full account →During the evening scattered strong to severe thunderstorms moved southeast into East Central Colorado. Hail up to grapefruit size was reported near Wauneta. The storms went on to produce wind gusts up to 71 MPH near Idalia.
Read the full account →An upper level high pressure center was located over central Arizona and central New Mexico which resulted in a favorable pattern for efficient diurnal wind fluctuations including upslope oriented winds towards WFO Pueblo's eastern mountains.
Read the full account →An upper level high pressure center was located over central Arizona and central New Mexico which resulted in a favorable pattern for efficient diurnal wind fluctuations including upslope oriented winds towards WFO Pueblo's eastern mountains.
Read the full account →Severe thunderstorms produced large hail and intense winds over parts of the urban corridor and northeast plains and included: Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Elbert, Jefferson, Lincoln, Phillips and Weld counties.
Read the full account →Monsoonal rains produced a ten foot wall of silt-laden water down Seven castles Creek. and into the Fryingpan River. The large quantity of silt in the river suffocated an undetermined amount of rainbow trout in the Fryingpan River in the five-mile stretch between the Seven…
Read the full account →A slow moving thunderstorm brought heavy rain to the Four Mile Canyon burn area northwest of Boulder. The heavy rain triggered rock and mudslides along Fourmile Canyon Drive near Logan Mill, Nancy Mine and Gold Run Roads.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms tracked across eastern Colorado August 13th producing strong to damaging winds. A wind gust of 83 mph was reported was four miles north-northeast of Elizabeth. The strongest wind gust of the day.
Read the full account →During the spring snowmelt, a large tree fell into the Yampa River and floated downstream, lodging against a pedestrian bridge on the west end of Steamboat Springs. Water dammed up behind the tree and the bridge, and poured over the river bank on the north side of the river.
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