Flash Flood, La Plata
- When
- August 10, 12:00 PM MST to 1:00 PM MST
- Where
- La Plata County, 15 mi NE of Durango
- Property damage
- $2,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 37.287, -107.843 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Colorado, August 10, 1999
Heavy rains resulted in a five foot wall of water which came down Miller Creek near County Road 243. A foot bridge was washed out and a section of road leading to a private residence was washed away.
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
- $2,000
- 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.
Heavy rains resulted in a five foot wall of water which came down Miller Creek near County Road 243. A foot bridge was washed out and a section of road leading to a private residence was washed away.
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 200 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:00 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
- Heat in Texas, August 10 to 12, 1999
- Flooding and Hail in Arizona, August 10 to 31, 1999
- Flash Flooding in Nebraska, August 10 to 11, 1999
- Flash Flood and Hail in Nebraska, August 10, 1999
- Flood in Colorado, August 10, 1999
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Colorado, August 10, 1999
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Colorado, August 10, 1999
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strikes in Oklahoma, August 10, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, August 10, 1999
- Hail in Oregon, August 10, 1999
- Hail in Colorado, August 10, 1999
- Hail and Lightning Strike in Wisconsin, August 10, 1999
More
Every storm in Colorado in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Colorado, August 1999
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: 5713909.