Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996

Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 14, 1996El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 14, 1996, 4:21 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 59 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 14, 1996, 4:21 PM MDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 1996, 5:20 PM MDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties

County El Paso County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1860 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 9 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 KPUB 142221
FFWPUB
COC041-142320-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
421 PM MDT FRI JUN 14 1996

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
  NORTH CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL COLORADO

* UNTIL 520 PM MDT
 
* SOME RIVERS...CREEKS OR AREAS AFFECTED
    COTTONWOOD CREEK NORTHEAST OF COLORADO SPRINGS
    SAND CREEK NORTHEAST OF COLORADO SPRINGS
    KETTLE CREEK
    BURGESS CREEK
    FORK CREEK
    FALCON
    HIGHWAY 24 BETWEEN FALCON AND PEYTON
    BLACK FOREST

* CAUSE AND EFFECT
    STRONG SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN

* FORECAST CONDITIONS
    RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR

A FOLLOW UP STATEMENT ON THE FLOODING WILL BE OUT SHORTLY.

SR

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 14, 11:43 AM MDT, 4 hours 38 minutes before

COZ060>081-150600-

SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST
COLORADO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1145 AM MDT FRI JUN 14 1996

THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COLORADO COUNTIES:

ALAMOSA      BACA        BENT          CHAFFEE        CONEJOS
COSTILLA     CROWLEY     CUSTER        EL PASO        FREMONT
HUERFANO     KIOWA       LAS ANIMAS    MINERAL        OTERO
PROWERS      PUEBLO      RIO GRANDE    SAGUACHE       TELLER

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR TELLER AND EL PASO COUNTIES THROUGH TONIGHT...

SYNOPSIS: A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR MASS WILL REMAIN OVER THE REGION
THROUGH TONIGHT.  AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE OVER NORTHEAST ARIZONA
WILL SLOWLY MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON WITH SOME STORMS
CONTAINING HEAVY RAIN.  THESE STORMS WILL MOVE FROM THE SOUTH TO THE
NORTH AT 10 TO 15 MPH.  AS THESE STORMS APPROACH THE PALMER DIVIDE AND
RAMPART RANGE...THEY MAY SLOW AND PRODUCE HEAVIER RAIN.  AS A
RESULT...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR EL PASO AND TELLER
COUNTIES.

OVER THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA...THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCAL URBAN AND
SMALL STREAM FLOODING.

THE STORMS MAY ALSO CONTAIN SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS...BUT THE MAIN
THREAT FROM THESE STORMS IS HEAVY RAIN.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER TODAY...MAINLY FOR HEAVY RAIN
AND FLOODING REPORTS.

WOLYN

Special weather statement, Jun 14, 2:16 PM MDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before

COZ073>075-077-142220-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
216 PM MDT FRI JUN 14 1996

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN HUERFANO AND WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES...

THROUGH 315 PM...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME STRONG...WILL AFFECT
EASTERN HUERFANO AND WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES...LIKELY AFFECTING
WALSENBURG...LA VETA...CUCHARA...AGUILAR...GULNARE AND INTERSTATE 25
BETWEEN COLORADO CITY AND TRINIDAD.

THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS
OF UP TO ONE INCH PER HOUR...WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH...FREQUENT DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING AND PEA SIZE HAIL.

AT 211 PM...THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED 12 MILES EAST OF
WALSENBURG...14 MILES NORTH OF WALSENBURG...AND 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
WALSENBURG.  MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 5 MPH.

IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER
INFORMATION AND KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY. DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN
OCCUR WITH ALL THUNDERSTORMS. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES... GET
INDOORS OR IN A VEHICLE. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE SEVERAL MILES AWAY
FROM THE STORM...WHERE IT IS NOT RAINING AND WHERE YOU MAY BE.

Special weather statement, Jun 14, 2:29 PM MDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before

COZ068>070-073-142235-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
229 PM MDT FRI JUN 14 1996

...THUNDERSTORMS IN FREMONT COUNTY...

THROUGH 33O PM...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME STRONG...WILL AFFECT FREMONT
COUNTY.  HOWARD...COALDALE...COTOPAXI...TEXAS CREEK...CANON CITY AND
FLORENCE WILL LIKELY BE AFFECTED.

THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL PRODUCE PEA SIZE HAIL...LOCALLY HEAVY
RAINFALL UP TO 1 INCH PER HOUR AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH.  ALL
THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

AT 225 PM...THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED JUST NORTH OF COTOPAXI...OR
26 MILES WEST OF CANON CITY.  THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 15
MPH.

IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER
INFORMATION AND KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY. DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN
OCCUR WITH ALL THUNDERSTORMS. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES... GET
INDOORS OR IN A VEHICLE. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE SEVERAL MILES AWAY
FROM THE STORM...WHERE IT IS NOT RAINING AND WTHERE YOU MAY BE.

SR

Special weather statement, Jun 14, 2:56 PM MDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before

COZ067-071>073-142215-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
256 PM MDT FRI JUN 14 1996

...A LINE OF STORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS EL PASO COUNTY...

THROUGH 4 PM...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT WESTERN AND CENTRAL
EL PASO COUNTY...AND FAR NORTHERN PUEBLO COUNTY. THESE STORMS WILL
PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN UP TO 1/2 INCH PER HOUR...STRONG GUSTY WINDS
UP TO 50 MPH...PEA-SIZED HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.

AT 253 PM...PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF DEVELOPING
THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM PEYTON THROUGH FOUNTAIN TO 10 MILES
WEST OF PUEBLO WEST. THE LINE WAS MOVING NORTH NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH.

IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND
KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY. DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN OCCUR WITH ALL
THUNDERSTORMS. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES... GET INDOORS OR IN A
VEHICLE. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE SEVERAL MILES AWAY FROM THE STORM...WHERE
IT IS NOT RAINING AND WHERE YOU MAY BE.

MOORE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 4:46 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	El Paso, Fremont	64 min
Jun 14, 5:25 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	El Paso, Fremont	2 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.