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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 14, 1996El Paso County, Fremont County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 14, 1996, 4:46 PM MDT for El Paso County, Fremont County, Colorado. It was in force for 64 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, 4:46 PM MDT (22:46 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 1996, 5:50 PM MDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

Counties El Paso County, CO, Fremont County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 203 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1996-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1996-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -10 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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 142246
FFWPUB
COC041-043-142350-

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

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
  EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN EL PASO COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL COLORADO
  EXTREME EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY - CENTRAL COLORADO

* UNTIL 550 PM MDT
 
* SOME RIVERS...CREEKS OR AREAS AFFECTED
    HIGHWAY 115 FROM PENROSE TO 15 MILES SOUTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS

* CAUSE AND EFFECT
    STRONG SLOW-MLOVING THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN

* FORECAST CONDITIONS
    1 TO 2 INCH RAINFALL RATES PER HOUR

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

MM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 4:21 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBEl Paso59 min
Jun 14, 5:25 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBEl Paso, Fremont2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Colorado, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996

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.