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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 15, 1988Bent County, Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 15, 1988, 6:51 PM MDT for Bent County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 15, 1988, 6:51 PM MDT (00:51 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 1988, 7:50 PM MDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

Counties Bent County, CO, Prowers County, CO

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 217 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1988-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1988-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2586 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 15, 4:12 PM MDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS COLO
415 PM MST WED JUN 15 1988

...TORNADO WATCH FOR MUCH OF TELLER AND ALL OF EL-PASO COUNTIES...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF EASTERN COLORADO UNTIL
9 PM THIS EVENING...WEDNESDAY JUNE 15TH.   LARGE  HAIL..STRONG WINDS..
AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

AT 410 PM THIS AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE OVER
WESTERN COLORADO SPRINGS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 10 MPH.   REPORTS OF
MARBLE SIZE HAIL HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM WOODLAND PARK.  OTHER SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS REACHED FROM SOUTHWEST OF TRINIDAD TO NORTHWEST
OF FORT COLLINS COLO. ALSO MOVING TO THE EAST AT 10 MPH.

SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY DROP AN INCH OR SO OF RAIN IN A SHORT PERIOD
OF TIME. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR ROAD AND STREET FLOODING AND
PONDING OF WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS.

FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS WILL BE ISSUED AS REQUIRED.

HAVILL
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 4:19 PM MDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
415 PM MDT WED JUN 15 1988

    ...NEAR PEA SIZE HAIL AND FLOODED ROADS ON PUEBLOS SOUTHSIDE...

A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WHICH MOVED ACROSS THE WESTERN AND SOUTHERN PARTS
OF PUEBLO COLORADO DROPPED NEAR PEA SIZE HAIL ON THE SOUTHSIDE OF TOWN.
VERY HEAVY RAINS ALSO FELL AND SOME OF THE ROADS ON THE SOUTH SIDE WERE
REPORTED TO BE FLOODED.

AT 410 PM MDT THE THUNDERSTORM THAT DRENCHED PARTS OF PUEBLO HAD
WEAKENED CONSIDERABLY AND WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AWAY FROM PUEBLO.

AT THIS TIME HOWEVER MOTORISTS IN PUEBLO...PARTICULARLY THE SOUTH SIDE
OF PUEBLO SHOULD EXERCISE ADDED CAUTION WHILE OUT THIS EVENING.
WATER OVER THE ROAD SURFACES CAN QUICKLY STALL AN ENGINE. SLOW DRIVING
SPEEDS AND IF POSSIBLE SEEK ALTERNATE ROUTES UNTIL THE FLOODED ROADS
SUBSIDE.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM THIS EVENING FOR PARTS
OF SOUTHEAST COLRADO.

STAY TUNED TO RADIO...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS
WHICH WILL BE ISSUED AS NEEDED.
GRAY
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 4:37 PM MDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS COLO
435 PM MST WED JUN 15 1988

...TORNADO WATCH FOR ALL OF ELBERT COUNTY UNTIL 9PM THIS EVENING...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF EASTERN COLORADO UNTIL
9 PM THIS EVENING...WEDNESDAY JUNE 15TH.   LARGE  HAIL..STRONG WINDS..
AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

AT 430 PM THIS AFTERNOON A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING LINE OF INTENSE THUNDER-
STORMS WAS JUST WEST OF THE CITY OF DENVER AND MOVING TO THE EAST AND
SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 10 MPH. THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS LINE SHOULD BE IN
NORTHWEST ELBERT COUNTY BY 5PM. THESE INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ALREADY
PRODUCED NUMEROUS TORNDAOES IN THE DENVER METRO AREA.

...............BE ALART...............

SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY DROP AN INCH OR SO OF RAIN IN A SHORT PERIOD
OF TIME. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR ROAD AND STREET FLOODING AND
POUNDING OF WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS.

FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS WILL BE ISSUED AS REQUIRED.

NOVAK
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 4:39 PM MDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT ..CORRECTION SPELLING...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS COLO
435 PM MST WED JUN 15 1988

...TORNADO WATCH FOR ALL OF ELBERT COUNTY UNTIL 9PM THIS EVENING...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF EASTERN COLORADO UNTIL
9 PM THIS EVENING...WEDNESDAY JUNE 15TH.   LARGE  HAIL..STRONG WINDS..
AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

AT 430 PM THIS AFTERNOON A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING LINE OF INTENSE THUNDER-
STORMS WAS JUST WEST OF THE CITY OF DENVER AND MOVING TO THE EAST AND
SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 10 MPH. THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS LINE SHOULD BE IN
NORTHWEST ELBERT COUNTY BY 5PM. THESE INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ALREADY
PRODUCED NUMEROUS TORNDAOES IN THE DENVER METRO AREA.

...............BE ALERT...............

SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY DROP AN INCH OR SO OF RAIN IN A SHORT PERIOD
OF TIME. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR ROAD AND STREET FLOODING AND
POUNDING OF WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS.

FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS WILL BE ISSUED AS REQUIRED.

NOVAK
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 5:59 PM MDT, 52 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS COLO
600 PM MST WED JUN 15 1988

...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9PM FOR MUCH OF EASTERN COLORADO...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF EASTERN COLORADO UNTIL
9 PM THIS EVENING...WEDNESDAY JUNE 15TH.   LARGE  HAIL..STRONG WINDS..
AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

AT 550 PM A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED ACROSS NORTH-
WEST ELBERT COUNTY SOUTHWEST ACROSS DOUGLAS...NORTHWEST EL-PASO
NORTHERN TELLER AND EXTENDED INTO PARK COUNTY. THIS LINE IS MOVING  EAST
AND SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THIS LINE SHOULD CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS ELBERT...
EL-PASO AND TELLER COUNTIES. THIS LINE OF THUND/ERSTORMS HAS PRODUCED
SEVERE WEATHER....

NEXT UPDATE WILL BE ISSUED BY 730PM...
NOVAK
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 6:09 PM MDT, 42 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
610 PM MDT WED JUN 15 1988

...THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL EASTERN BENT COUNTY...

AT 605 PM MDT A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS IN EASTERN BENT
COUNTY NEAR THE EASTERN END OF JOHN MARTIN RESERVOIR...OR ABOUT 10 MILES
WEST OF LAMAR. VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS STORM...AND HAIL
WAS POSSIBLE. AN ADDED THREAT WITH THIS STORM WAS THAT LITTLE MOVEMENT
WAS NOTED.

PEOPLE IN EASTERN BENT COUNTY...AS WELL AS WESTERN PROWERS AND SOUTH
CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THIS STORM IN EASTERN
BENT COUNTY. BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING
WEATHER APPROACHES. BOATERS AND FISHERMEN NEAR JOHN MARTIN SHOULD
GET OFF THE WATER QUICKLY. THUNDERSTORMS CAN QUICKLY AND WITHOUT
ADVANCE WARNING CAPSIZE BOATS. LIGHTNING IS ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS NEAR
THE WATER.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM THIS EVENING FOR PARTS;
OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO...INCLUDING BENT...PROWERS AND WESTERN KIOWA
COUNTIES.

STAY TUNED TO RADIO...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS
WHICH WILL BE ISSUED AS NEEDED.
GRAY

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 6:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBent, Prowers59 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.