Flash Flood, Pitkin
- When
- July 21, 4:20 PM MST to 4:40 PM MST
- Where
- Pitkin County, 9 mi SSW of Aspen
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 39.217, -106.917 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Colorado, July 21, 1998
Heavy rainfall resulted in a flow of mud and debris several feet deep across a 25 foot stretch of Maroon Creek Road.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS GJT wrote it up.
Heavy rainfall resulted in a flow of mud and debris several feet deep across a 25 foot stretch of Maroon Creek Road.
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 113 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:21 UTC.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, July 21, 1998
- Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, July 21, 1998
- Flooding and Hail in Indiana, July 21, 1998
- Heat in Texas, July 21, 1998
- Heat in Oklahoma, July 21, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Nebraska, July 21, 1998
- Heat in Missouri, July 21, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, July 21, 1998
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in Michigan, July 21, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Ohio, July 21, 1998
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Maryland, July 21, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 21, 1998
More
Every storm in Colorado in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Colorado, July 1998
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5662897.