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Severe thunderstorms hit the Denver metro Wednesday evening, and shrouded the entire Front Range in storm warnings for the immediate future.
Natalie Sullivan with the National Weather Service recorded over an inch of rain in under an hour in the metro, and 1-inch wide hail stones in Denver, Aurora and Genesee. Winds blowing between 7-11 mph were predicted.
A flash flood warning was activated around 6:30 p.m. across the metro area until later in the evening.
Flash Flood Warning including Denver CO, Aurora CO, Lakewood CO until 9:45 PM MDT pic.twitter.com/6jDp3h544C
— NWS Boulder (@NWSBoulder) August 22, 2019
The National Weather Service also cautioned drivers against driving through stretches of high and running water.
"We have a lot of rain falling out of these storms. Heavy rain with the storms not moving very much so they're pretty much stationary and just dropping a lot of rainfall," Sullivan said.
The National Weather Service was initially too busy to respond to comment.
The storm was immediately recorded by onlookers as sheets of rain fell, streets flooded and thunder claps set off many a car alarm in the city.
Thunder as loud as I've ever heard it in Denver and a whole lot of nearly ping pong ball sized hailstones. #cowx pic.twitter.com/epATDD7blk
— Eric Lubbers â˜€ï¸ (@brofax) August 22, 2019
Really coming down out there, huh @Denverite? pic.twitter.com/n3Y5rTYkub
— Nathaniel Minor (@nbminor) August 22, 2019
Wanted to capture how bad it is out here, and then someone walked by sheltering a little kid and now I have nothing to complain about. pic.twitter.com/lEkFVBQyii
— Megan Verlee (@CPRverlee) August 22, 2019
The Lakewood Police Department even put out a gentle request for everyone to please not do any crime until the storm passed.
Hello. Can we all agree nobody commits any crimes for a little while? Please and thank you. pic.twitter.com/KGdvwavxWu
— Lakewood Police Dept. (@LakewoodPDCO) August 22, 2019
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