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A flash flood warning for the Fourmile fire burn area was lifted today at 5:15 p.m., but a nuisance flooding watch is still in effect until 10 p.m.
At 3:44 p.m., radar indicated flash flooding from a thunderstorm near Salina, 31 miles northwest of Denver. About one-half inch of rain has fallen over the burn area in 45 minutes.
Meteorologist Kyle Fredin told the Associated Press the warning was issued after two passing showers went over an area where a wildfire burned off vegetation from hillsides in September. Runoff on hillsides without trees, shrubs and grasses can lead to erosion and flooding.
Fredin says the rain today wasn’t as significant as earlier this week, when rock slides and mud closed a canyon road west of Boulder.
