Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 4, 1995, 2:06 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 1995, 2:06 PM MDT (20:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1995, 5:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County El Paso County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 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
- 126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 646 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 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 042009 FFWPUB COC041-042315- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 206 PM MDT SUN JUN 4 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO ...WESTERN EL PASO COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDESTORM WHICH CONTAINS VERY HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL WILL BE MOVING OVER COLORADO SPRINGS BY 220 PM. SPOTTERS IN THE VICINITY OF COLORADO SPRINGS HAVE REPORTED THAT RAINFALL RATES HAVE BEEN ONE AND A HALF INCHES IN THE PAST FORTY MINUTES SINCE 130 PM. DOPPLER RADAR IN PUEBLO HAS INDICATED THAT STORM TOTAL PRECIPITATION IS AROUND TWO TO TWO AND HALF INCHES OF RAIN. THIS PRECIPITATION MAXIMUM ON RADAR IS BETWEEN MONUMENT AND COLORADO SPRINGS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE COLORADO SPRINGS AREA UNTIL 300 PM. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMI8NENT. IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. YOU SHOULD AVOID CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS. GTR &
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 4, 1:16 PM MDT, 50 minutes before
COZ071-042005- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 116 PM MDT SUN JUN 4 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN THE COLORADO SPRINGS AREA... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY EASTWARD ACROSS THE COLORADO SPRINGS AREA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. REPORTS OF PEA AND MARBLE SIZED HAIL NEAR I-25 IN MONUMENT AND AT THE AIR FORCE ACADEMY WERE RELAYED TO THE WEATHER SERVICE BY TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS IN THE AREA. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. & NJL
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 1:18 PM MDT, 48 minutes before
COZ071-042005- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 116 PM MDT SUN JUN 4 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN THE COLORADO SPRINGS AREA... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY EASTWARD ACROSS THE COLORADO SPRINGS AREA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. REPORTS OF PEA AND MARBLE SIZED HAIL NEAR I-25 IN MONUMENT AND AT THE AIR FORCE ACADEMY WERE RELAYED TO THE WEATHER SERVICE BY TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS IN THE AREA. STRONG GUSTY W@INDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. & NJL
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 3, 8:24 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 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, 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
Flash Flood Warnings in Colorado, 1995Every flash flood warning in 1995
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.