Severe storm potential returns to Colorado

The final days of July will bring flash flood risks to Colorado.

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00:00It has been hot and muggy, even more so than we're used to here along the Colorado Front Range,

00:05but a break from that humidity, unfortunately, is going to come with the price in terms of severe weather

00:11and potentially some flash flood potential, mainly along the Front Range Urban Corridor.

00:15We're talking about that I-25 corridor, basically from the Wyoming border down to the New Mexico border.

00:21We're really going to be tracking the areas here from Denver and south toward Colorado Springs and Pueblo

00:26for that potential to see that brief severe weather threat, but mainly going to be a flash flood threat.

00:32We've seen this here over the last couple of weeks, off and on, where we get into these active patterns.

00:37Last week, for instance, up in northern Colorado, we saw some pretty substantial flooding in the town of Greeley,

00:43a little college town up there, home of the UNC Bears.

00:45They saw some pretty heavy rain there last Thursday that flooded a bunch of streets in that area,

00:50stalling some cars, creating some issue.

00:52Even got a little bit of hail out of some of those storms as well.

00:55Not expecting big, severe weather today.

00:57There is certainly that potential.

00:58We could see a couple of severe storms, mainly with some larger hail and potentially some damaging winds with that.

01:04But it's going to be the heavy rain as these storms are going to be slow moving.

01:08And again, as I mentioned, we talk about the humidity here along the Front Range.

01:13Much, much higher than we typically see.

01:15It has been very, very humid, so a lot of moisture in the air for those storms to work with.

01:18That is going to lead to that flash flood threat today and possibly again tomorrow.

01:23I'll be tracking those storms here over the next couple of days along the Front Range.

01:26So certainly, again, if you are on the roads when those rains hit, turn around, don't drown.

01:30Reporting for AccuWeather on the Long Colorado Front Range, I'm meteorologist Tony Lawback.