3 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Pueblo, CO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 5, 1:30 PM MST, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO COLORADO 230 PM MDT FRI JUL 5 2002 SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE THE CONCERN THIS WEEKEND... WITH AMOUNT OF WARMING AND DRYING NEXT WEEK THE LONGER TERM QUESTION. CURRENTLY: MOIST AIR MASS IN PLACE ACROSS CO...WITH USUAL CROP OF AFTERNOON TSRA OVER THE MTNS. FAIRLY DISTINCT S/W TROUGH MOVING NORTHWARD ALONG THE CO/KS BORDER HELPING TO FIRE SOME -TSRA FAR EASTERN PLAINS...WITH ANOTHER TROUGH/UPPER LOW OVER CENTRAL NM AIDING CONVECTION IN THE EXTREME SRN ZONES. AS USUAL...WEAKLY SUBSIDENT AREA BETWEEN THE 2 SYSTEMS PLUS UNFAVORABLE WRLY STORM MOTION LEAVING MUCH OF PUEBLO AND EL PASO COUNTIES OUT OF THE RAIN PICTURE. CLOUDS/MOISTURE AND MINOR 700 MB COOLING ALLOWING MAX TEMPS TO CONTINUE THEIR SLOW DOWNWARD TREND OF THE PAST FEW DAYS. TONIGHT...MUCH THE SAME STORY AS LAST 2 NIGHTS...WITH MOST BUT NOT ALL CONVECTION DYING OUT AFTER SUNSET. WOULD EXPECT FAR SERN PLAINS TO HAVE BEST CHANCE OF -TSRA CONTINUING OVERNIGHT WITH DEEP TROPICAL MOISTURE IN PLACE. MAIN CHANGE TO THE GRIDS WAS TO LOWER POPS FOR PUEBLO AND EL PASO COUNTY TO SLIGHT CHANCE...AS WRLY STORM MOTION SHOVES ANY MOUNTAIN CONVECTION WWRD AND AWAY FROM THE AREA. SATURDAY/SATURDAY NIGHT...LITTLE CHANGE IN THE UPPER PATTERN...WITH WEAK S/W TROUGH DRIFTING INTO NERN CO WHILE LOW OVER NM APPEARS TO RETROGRADE SLIGHTLY TO THE SW. MODELS HAVE CONTINUED TO BACK AWAY FROM ANY SURFACE COOL SURGE IN THE EAST...THOUGH MOIST UPSLOPE FLOW REMAINS. HARD TO PIN DOWN ANY FAVORED AREA FOR -TSRA...SO WILL CONTINUE THE BROAD BRUSH OF THE CURRENT ZONES. SUSPECT GUIDANCE IS A LITTLE TOO COOL FOR MAX TEMPS...SO SHADED SLIGHTLY ABOVE. SUNDAY...UPPER HIGH BEGINS TO REBUILD OVER THE CENTRAL AND SWRN U.S...WHICH SUPPRESSES MOST S/W ENERGY INTO NM. STILL PLENTY OF MOISTURE ACROSS THE STATE...SO ANOTHER ROUND OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING CONVECTION LOOKS POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY MTNS. MAX TEMPS BEGIN TO RISE AS HEIGHTS SLOWLY CLIMB. MONDAY-FRI...MAIN FEATURE WILL BE LARGE UPPER HIGH BUILDING OVER THE CENTRAL ROCKIES...WHICH WILL SHUNT MOST MOISTURE AND ANY ERLY WAVES SOUTH OF CO. STILL ENOUGH RH LEFT TO RECYCLE FOR AFTERNOON AND EVENING CONVECTION...THOUGH WOULD EXPECT A DAY-DAY DOWNWARD TREND IN COVERAGE AS TEMPS ALOFT WARM AND AIR MASS SLOWLY DRIES OUT. WAS TEMPTED TO REMOVE POPS ENTIRELY FROM THE PLAINS AS UPPER HIGH POSITION MAY KEEP ANY TERRAIN INDUCED CONVECTION CLOSE TO THE MOUNTAINS...BUT FOR NOW WILL CUT BACK TO SLIGHT CHANCES AND WAIT ANOTHER DAY BEFORE GIVING UP ENTIRELY. MAX TEMPS SHOULD CLIMB BACK TO NEAR ABOVE NORMAL READINGS BY MID-WEEK. .PUB...NONE. PETERSEN
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Very heavy rainfall in excess of six inches caused flash flooding of Wolf Creek...Granada Creek and Plum Creek drainage basins in central Prowers county. A bridge over Wolf Creek just north of Granada was damaged. No dollar amount to fix the bridge was available at this time.
Very heavy rainfall in excess of six inches caused some flooding of county roads and low areas in the Sand arroyo basin.
Slow moving thunderstorms dropped from 1 to 3 inches of rainfall over much of Colorado Springs...causing some brief and minor flooding of Fountain Creek in and south of Colorado Springs. Their was no known damage.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Colorado in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Colorado, July 2002
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: 5307577, 5307578, 5307579.