Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 2, 1995, 9:58 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 1995, 9:58 PM MDT (03:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1995, 3:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County El Paso County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -224 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1748 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPUB 030403 COR FFWPUB COC041-030900- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED TO ADD SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 958 PM MDT FRI JUN 2 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 AM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO ...EASTERN AND SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY... HEAVY RAINS HAVE BEEN FALLING ACROSS EASTERN AND SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY THIS EVENING...WITH DOPPLER RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES OF 4 TO 5 INCHES SOUTH OF CALHAN AND 2 TO 3 INCHES IN THE SECURITY AND WIDEFIELD AREAS. HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OVER EL PASO COUNTY. FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED AT JIMMY CAMP CREEK AT LINK ROAD IN THE FOUNTAIN AREA. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS SEEN...ACT QUICKLY. GO TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. GTR/TLM &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 6:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 57 min |
| Jun 2, 6:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 64 min |
| Jun 2, 7:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas, Otero | 61 min |
| Jun 2, 8:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 37 min |
| Jun 2, 8:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 55 min |
| Jun 2, 9:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 60 min |
| Jun 3, 1:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano | 59 min |
| Jun 3, 2:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Otero | 59 min |
| Jun 3, 3:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 45 min |
| Jun 3, 3:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 69 min |
| Jun 3, 3:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 57 min |
| Jun 3, 4:32 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Otero | 58 min |
| Jun 3, 4:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 62 min |
| Jun 3, 4:47 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 4:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 58 min |
| Jun 3, 5:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 54 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.