Flash Flood, Baca
- When
- July 7, 6:30 PM MST to 8:30 PM MST
- Where
- Baca County, Vilas
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 37.319, -102.560 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Colorado, July 7, 1998
Slow moving thunderstorms produced 2 to 6 inches of rainfall across Baca county, causing flooding of low-lying areas, ditches, and roads near the towns of Vilas and Walsh. Water 200 to 300 yards wide was moving across county roads near Vilas, and private homes, basements, and the high school in both Vilas and Walsh were flooded.
Where it happened
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- 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 PUB wrote it up.
Slow moving thunderstorms produced 2 to 6 inches of rainfall across Baca county, causing flooding of low-lying areas, ditches, and roads near the towns of Vilas and Walsh. Water 200 to 300 yards wide was moving across county roads near Vilas, and private homes, basements, and the high school in both Vilas and Walsh were flooded.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Lightning Strike in Indiana, July 7, 1998
- Flash Flood in New Mexico, July 7, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Minnesota, July 7, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, July 7, 1998
- Flash Flood in Michigan, July 7 to 8, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 7, 1998
- Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, July 7, 1998
- Lightning Strike in New York, July 7, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, July 7, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Idaho, July 7, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Iowa, July 7, 1998
- Flash Flood in Indiana, July 7, 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: 5662658.