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Flood warnings on the Purgatoire, Arkansas Rivers: an inch and a half of rain on the wettest ground in a century
Two rivers in southeast Colorado carried flood warnings into Friday morning, and neither of them was fed by the mountains. The Purgatoire River near Las Animas crested at 10.46 feet about 2 p.m. Thursday, a foot and a half over minor flood stage, after rising from a trickle in a few hours before dawn. The Arkansas River at Lamar passed bankfull at 10.14 feet just after midnight Friday, with Prowers County emergency management reporting water in low ground along the river Thursday afternoon. The cause was a single night of rain, Wednesday into Thursday, that fell on ground still soaked from the wettest October the lower Arkansas Valley has recorded.
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