Flash Flood, Archuleta
- When
- July 26, 3:00 PM MST to 3:30 PM MST
- Where
- Archuleta County, Chimney Rock
- Reported by
- DEPT OF HIGHWAYS
- Coordinates
- 37.194, -107.048 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Colorado, July 26, 2000
Heavy rains which fell for about 60 minutes resulted in rapid water runoff along with mud and rock slides across Highway 160 near Chimney Rock.
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 rains which fell for about 60 minutes resulted in rapid water runoff along with mud and rock slides across Highway 160 near Chimney Rock.
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 228 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:00 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
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Iowa, July 26, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, July 26, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, July 26 to 27, 2000
- Wildfire in Hawaii, July 26, 2000
- Wildfire in Idaho, July 26 to 31, 2000
- Damaging Winds in New Mexico, July 26 to 27, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, July 26, 2000
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Kansas, July 26, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 26, 2000
- Flash Flood in Wisconsin, July 26, 2000
- Flash Flood in Wisconsin, July 26, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, July 26, 2000
More
Every storm in Colorado in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in Colorado, July 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: 5155232.