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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 17, 1996Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 17, 1996, 5:43 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 57 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 17, 1996, 5:43 PM MDT (23:43 UTC)
Expired
Jun 17, 1996, 6:40 PM MDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Baca County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 191 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:45 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 240 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1996-06-17Temperature 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 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1996-06-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 53 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
1609 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
25 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 172343
FFWPUB
COC009-180040-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
543 PM MDT MON JUN 17 1996

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
  NORTHEASTERN BACA COUNTY - SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 640 PM MDT
 
* SOME RIVERS...CREEKS OR AREAS AFFECTED
    BEAR CREEK FROM 3 MILES NORTH OF WALSH TO 5 MILES NORTH OF BARLETT

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

* FORECAST CONDITIONS
    RAINFALL RATES UP TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR

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

AH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 17, 4:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca47 min
Jun 17, 5:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca30 min

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.