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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 28, 1988Gunnison County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 1988, 8:54 PM MDT for Gunnison County, Colorado. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 28, 1988, 8:54 PM MDT (02:54 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 1988, 11:00 PM MDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Gunnison 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

Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 137 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, Grand Junction, CO at 00:00Z on 1988-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Grand Junction, CO at 00:00Z on 1988-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -13 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KDEN 290254
FFWDEN
COC051-290500-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
FLASH FLOOD WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
854 PM MDT TUE JUN 28 1988

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY

   IN THE CENTRAL PART OF COLORADO
      NORTH AND CENTRAL GUNNISON

THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TOWNS AND CITIES... GUNNISON

FLOOD WATERS ARE MOVING DOWN OHIO CREEK SOUTH OF BALDWIN AND TOWARD
GUNNISON.  FROM THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 135 AND OHIO CREEK
ROAD TWO MILES TO THE NORTHWEST THE ROAD IS PARTIALLY WASHED OUT
AND HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL NEAR THE TOWN OF BALDWIN.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE OVER ROADS COVERED BY FLOOD WATERS.

WIESMUELLER

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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.