Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 1991
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 1, 1991, 8:02 PM MDT for Larimer County, Colorado. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 1991, 8:02 PM MDT (02:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 1991, 11:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Larimer County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 209 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1289 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -342 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -213 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -4.4
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 1, 2:47 PM MDT, 5 hours 15 minutes before
COZ011-012200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 245 PM MDT SAT JUN 1 1991 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN FOOTHILLS NORTHWEST OF BOULDER... AT 240 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM BETWEEN LYONS AND JAMESTOWN IN NORTHERN BOULDER COUNTY...ABOUT 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF DENVER. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHWEST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. ALL PEOPLE IN NORTHERN BOULDER COUNTY AND SOUTHWESTERN LARIMER COUNTY INCLUDING THE TOWNS OF JAMESTOWN...LYONS...RAYMOND...ALLENSPARK... MEEKER PARK AND ESTES PARK SHOULD BE ALERT FOR DANGEROUS FREQUENT LIGHTNING...HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS FROM THIS STORM UNTIL 400 PM MDT THIS AFTERNOON. HEAVY RAIN FROM THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE FLOODING OF NORMALLY DRY GULCHES...SMALL STREAMS...HIGHWAYS...AND LOW LYING OR FLOOD PRONE AREAS. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF NORTHEAST COLORADO UNTIL MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. GARD...WSFO DENVER
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 4:02 PM MDT, 4 hours before
COZ011-012300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 400 PM MDT SAT JUN 1 1991 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST METRO DENVER... AT 355 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTHWEST PORTION OF THE DENVER METRO AREA IN LAKEWOOD NEAR SOUTHWEST PLAZA SHOPPING CENTER. PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED FROM THESE STORMS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHWEST AT 15 TO 20 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING OVER MORRISON... EVERGREEN AND GOLDEN. ALL PEOPLE IN WEST AND SOUTHWEST METRO DENVER SHOULD BE ALERT FOR DANGEROUS FREQUENT LIGHTNING...HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS FROM THESE STORMS UNTIL 500 PM MDT THIS AFTERNOON. HEAVY RAIN FROM THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE FLOODING OF NORMALLY DRY GULCHES...SMALL STREAMS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS...AND LOW LYING OR FLOOD PRONE AREAS INCLUDING LENA GULCH. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF NORTHEAST COLORADOd UNTIL MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. GARD...WSFO DENVER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 6:07 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Boulder | 38 min |
| Jun 1, 6:33 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Larimer | 27 min |
| Jun 1, 11:00 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOU | Larimer | 2 hr |
| Jun 2, 5:01 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Larimer, Weld | 29 min |
| Jun 2, 5:01 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Denver | 29 min |
| Jun 2, 5:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Boulder, Denver, Jefferson | 48 min |
| Jun 2, 5:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 48 min |
| Jun 2, 5:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Morgan, Washington | 64 min |
| Jun 2, 5:45 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOU | Denver | 75 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Colorado, 1991Every flash flood warning in 1991
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.