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<br />Figure Captions <br /> <br />Fig. I. Storm-total rainfall (mm) ending at 0800 UTC 13 July 1996 from the Denver WSR-88D <br /> <br />radar. The outline of the Buffalo Creek basin is shown as a thick solid line, and the town of <br /> <br />", <br />Buffalo Creek is indicated by the white star near the basin outlet. The forest fire bum area is <br /> <br />hatched, and terrain heights are contoured every 250 m. <br /> <br />Fig. 2. Hybrid scan elevation angles used by the PPS at FTG, shown to a maximum range of 115 <br /> <br />km. The Buffalo Creek basin is outlined. <br /> <br />Fig. 3. Height of the 1.5 deg elevation angle beam relative to the terrain at the 234 deg azimuth <br /> <br />angle that is centered over the basin. The two vertical lines delineate the extent of the basin. The <br /> <br />height of the freezing level is shown at 4.9 km. <br /> <br />Fig. 4. Rain gauge locations surrounding the FTG radar (center of polar grid) used in this study. <br /> <br />Range rings are at 60 km intervals. The Buffalo Creek basin is outlined, and the town of <br /> <br />Buffalo Creek is indicated by the "+" symbol. <br /> <br />Fig. 5. Time series of a) echo area at the lowest tilt, b) percent echo area reduction from the first <br /> <br />to the second tilt, c) area-weighted mean reflectivity, and d) conditional biscan ratio. Times <br /> <br />exceeding 24 UTC correspond to times after 00 UTC 13 July. <br /> <br />Fig. 6. Hourly time series of a) gauge-radar bias estimate (G/R), b) mean square error of the bias <br /> <br />31 <br />