Flash Flood, Eagle
- When
- August 26, 12:52 PM MST
- Where
- Eagle County, Gypsum
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 39.628, -106.695 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Colorado, August 26, 2000
A 7 mile stretch of Interstate 70 was closed after slow moving thunderstorms dropped very heavy rainfall and caused a series of mud slides. Mud and debris up to 15 inches deep covered the highway, which remained closed for several hours.
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.
A 7 mile stretch of Interstate 70 was closed after slow moving thunderstorms dropped very heavy rainfall and caused a series of mud slides. Mud and debris up to 15 inches deep covered the highway, which remained closed for several hours.
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 145 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:53 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
- Damaging Winds in Minnesota, August 26, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Florida, August 26, 2000
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in Wisconsin, August 26, 2000
- Flooding and Damaging Wind in Michigan, August 26, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, August 26, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, August 26, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, August 26, 2000
- Flooding in Florida, August 26, 2000
- Lightning Strikes in Tennessee, August 26 to 27, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Illinois, August 26, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Iowa, August 26, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, August 26, 2000
More
Every storm in Colorado in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in Colorado, August 2000
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: 5156944.