Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 3, 1995, 8:24 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 1995, 8:24 PM MDT (02:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1995, 11:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kiowa County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 1788 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPUB 040226 FFWPUB COC061-040530- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 824 PM MDT SAT JUN 3 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...KIOWA COUNTY THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING IN KIOWA COUNTY THROUGH THIS EVENING. AT 820 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL OVER EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. AT 815 PM THE KIOWA COUNTY SHERRIFF'S OFFICE REPORTED CLOSING HIGHWAY 287 SOUTH OF EADS DUE TO FLOODING. DOPPLER RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES AS OF 820 PM INDICATED ONE HOUR TOTALS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES OVER SOUTHEAST KIOWA COUNTY WITH THREE HOUR TOTALS OF TWO TO THREE INCHES OVER SOUTH CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN VEHICLES.> DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM ON FOOT...EVEN A SMALL ONE. HAYNES
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 3, 2:24 PM MDT, 6 hours before
COZ068-070-073-032125- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 224 PM MDT SAT JUN 3 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WET MOUNTAINS... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE NORTH ALONG HIGHWAY 67 BETWEEN WETMORE AND FLORENCE BY 300 PM MDT. AT 220 PM MDT...PUEBLO DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED THE STORM 4 MILES WEST OF WETMORE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 10 TO 15 MPH. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. LARSON
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 2:25 PM MDT, 5 hours 59 minutes before
COZ068-070-073-032125- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 224 PM MDT SAT JUN 3 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WET MOUNTAINS... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE NORTH ALONG HIGHWAY 67 BETWEEN WETMORE AND FLORENCE BY 300 PM MDT. AT 220 PM MDT...PUEBLO DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED THE STORM 4 MILES WEST OF WETMORE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 10 TO 15 MPH. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUST>Y WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. LARSON
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 5:24 PM MDT, 3 hours before
COZ071-040030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 524 PM MDT SAT JUN 3 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS WESTERN EL PASO COUNTY... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE OVER WESTERN EL PASO COUNTY AFFECTING COLORADO SPRINGS AND THE SURROUNDING METROPOLITAN AREA. AT 522 PM A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COLORADO SPRINGS MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 5:26 PM MDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before
COZ071-040030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 524 PM MDT SAT JUN 3 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS WESTERN EL PASO COUNTY... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MHOVE OVER WESTERN EL PASO COUNTY AFFECTING COLORADO SPRINGS AND THE SURROUNDING METROPOLITAN AREA. AT 522 PM A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COLORADO SPRINGS MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 6:17 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Otero | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 7:46 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 1:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 66 min |
| Jun 4, 2:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 60 min |
| Jun 4, 2:06 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | El Paso | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 3:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 58 min |
| Jun 4, 3:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 57 min |
| Jun 4, 4:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 44 min |
| Jun 4, 4:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 57 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.