FLOOD03733

• County: Teller
• Community: Hayman Fire Area, northern & western Teller County
• Stream Name: Turkey Creek, Trail Creek, Trout Creek
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: 2004 Flood Documentation Report - State of Colorado, Teller County, Colorado Floods of July 2004
• Date: 2/1/2005
• Prepared For: CWCB
• Prepared By: ICON Engineering, Inc
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Flood Documentation Report

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Radar Image July 16, 2004 5:00 p.m. MOT.

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Radar Image July 22, 2004 2:00 p.m. MDT.

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Radar Image July 30, 20041:00 p.m. MOT.

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Radar Image July 17, 2004 5:00 p.m. MOT.

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Radar Image July 23, 2004 5:00 p.m. MDT.

The following week. Teller County received
another series of sevt're allcmoon and
C'vcning thunderstorms in a pattern similar to
the prc\'ious wed. Tht:" stonns of July 22-
1..1.. 2004 included repons of I f(.lOt of pt:"a to
marble-size hail near Florissant on the
afternoon of July 23. \Vater overtopped
Teller County Road # 1 to depths of 3 to 4
feet. :--JEXRAD radar images in Figures
1.10 and 1.11 show st,'wre precipitation
activity in Tel1er on Thursday and Friday
afternoons. July :!2..23. 2004.

The third and tinal stornl cwnt in the st.'ries hit the following. \\l;~elo.: on July 28..30. 2004.
This e\,ent also hit western Teller County near Florissant particularly hard causing
complete washouts of newly finished road improvements on Teller::1. Figure 1.12
sh(w.s ht:"avy precipitation in the vicinity on July 30.

Unlilo.:e other Colorado communities ....hich have established data collection systems and
local volunteer networlo.:s for weather infomlation gathering. T e1kor County has no ollicial
local system in place for trading weather. The Community Collaboratiw Rain and Hail
Study. (CoCoRaHS). a science education project managed by the Colorado Climate
(enter at Colorado State Uniwrsity and driven by volunteer participants. did not have

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