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Title
Contributions to the Hydrology of the United States
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3/20/1926
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<br />. SOME FLOODS IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN. REGION. 113 <br /> <br />The maximum discharge probably decreased below Thermopolis, <br />because the flood .crest flattened out, Nowood Creek .contributed <br />about 3,400 second-feet to the Big Horn at Manderson, but this <br />flow reached the river 24 hours ahead of the crest stage. The ms.-d- <br />mum flow from the Greybull entered the Big Horn during the night <br />of July 24, nearly 24 hours ahead of the crest flow in thlLt stream. <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />BADWATml CBEEK. <br /> <br />The s.everest flood in the entire region occurred in the Badwater <br />drainage basin, which was within the area of heaviestrainfaU. The <br />residents at Lysite stated that the flood was the highest in 20 years. <br />An Associated Press item of .July 25 stated that a rancher and-his <br />. family barely escaped from a wall of water 6 miles west of Lysi-te, <br />The crest at that point occurred about 4 a, m. July 24, The Chicago, <br />Burlington & Quincy Railroad agent at Bonneville stated that the <br />creek started to rise there at 1.30 a. m. and rose gradually until <br />6 a. m" when the rise was much more rapid, being as much as 1 foot <br />every five minutes just prior to the crest, which occurred at 9.45 a. m. <br />The creek fell gradually for two days. The total rise was about 12 <br />feet. . <br /> <br />PAINTB.OCB: CllEBK. <br /> <br />The heavy rain that fell during the night of July 23 flooded the <br />entire Paintrock Creek basin and swept away practically every <br />bridge. The maximum stage occurred about midnight, when the <br />creek at the gaging station rose from 470 to 5,580 second-feet, an <br />increase in stage of 4% feet, in an hour's time, The observer re- <br />ported that high water lasted several hours, Residents state that <br />it was the largest flood ever experienced since white settlers have <br />lived in the va\1ey. Medicine Lodge .Creek, which joins Paintroek <br />Creek below the gaging station, had a severe flood, the crest of which <br />waS 45 minutes earlier. . . <br />GRBYBUIJ. JlIVEB:. . <br /> <br />The hydrograph for - the gaging station on Greybull River at <br />Meeteetse, Wyo. (not included in this report), shows that the upper <br />basin of t!u\t stream was subject to almost daily cloudbursts from <br />July 21 to 26. The chief area of cloudburst Was on Wood River, a <br />tributary of the Greybull, The fioods caused by these cloudbursts <br />did not exceed 2,200 second-feet, which Was not excessive for that <br />stream,.and the resulting damage was not great, <br />North Fork of Owl Creek, whose drainage area' adjoins that of <br />Wood River on the south, Was at the highest stage known, but the <br />South Fork was not very high. <br />
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