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Floods in Colorado include the flood of 1844 which filled the South Platte valley from "bluff to bluff"[1] to the recent Denver floods of 1965[2] and the 2013 Colorado floods.

Colorado floods are of two types: floods covering a large area resulting from heavy regional rainfall or snowmelt and flash floods resulting from isolated cloudbursts such as the Big Thompson flood of 1976.[1] Upslope winds bringing Gulf moisture to streams draining the Colorado Piedmont, the Denver Convergence Vorticity Zone, at the western edge of the High Plains and to the streams of the Front Range are associated with most flooding. Floods on the Western Slope and in the San Luis Valley such as the floods of October 1911 depend on rare infusions of substantial Pacific moisture.[1]

  1. ^ a b c "Floods in Colorado" Department of the Interior 1949
  2. ^ H. F. Matthai (1969). "Floods of June 1965 in South Platte River Basin, Colorado" (PDF). pubs.usgs.gov. USGS. Retrieved May 30, 2018. GEOLOGICALSURVEYWATER-SUPPLYPAPER1850-B

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