Flash Flood, Eagle
- When
- July 25, 3:00 PM MST to 3:30 PM MST
- Where
- Eagle County, 5 mi E of Basalt
- Property damage
- $40,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 39.628, -106.695 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Colorado, July 25, 1998
Monsoonal rains produced a ten foot wall of silt-laden water down Seven castles Creek. and into the Fryingpan River.
Where it happened
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- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $40,000
- 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.
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 Castles Creek and the Fryingpan's confluence with the Roaring Fork River. Several sediment traps were inundated with debris.
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 145 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:58 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
- Heavy Rain in Utah, July 25, 1998
- Flash Flood in New Mexico, July 25, 1998
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, July 25, 1998
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Colorado, July 25, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, July 25, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, July 25, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Colorado, July 25 to 29, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, July 25, 1998
- Waterspouts in Michigan, July 25 to 26, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Arkansas, July 25, 1998
- Hail in Arkansas, July 25, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Colorado, July 25, 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: 5662889.