Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 9, 1996, 6:11 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 9, 1996, 6:11 PM MDT (00:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 1996, 8:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pueblo County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:10 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 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1060 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 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 100011
FFWPUB
COC101-100215-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
611 PM MDT TUE JUL 9 1996
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
CENTRAL AND NORTHERN PUEBLO COUNTY - SOUTHEAST COLORADO
* UNTIL 815 PM MDT
* SOME RIVERS...CREEKS OR AREAS AFFECTED
FOUNTAIN CREEK
CITY OF PUEBLO
* CAUSE AND EFFECT
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING THROUGH NORTHERN AND CENTRAL
PUEBLO COUNTY IS PRODUCING IN EXCESS OF 2 INCHES OF RAIN
FALL PER HOUR CAUSING STREAMS AND ROADS IN THE AREA TO
BECOME FLOODED.
* FORECAST CONDITIONS
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND
WILL CONTINUE TO BRING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AS WELL AS LARGE
HAIL...AND VERY STRONG WINDS.
A FOLLOW UP STATEMENT ON THE FLOODING WILL BE OUT SHORTLY.
KTWhat 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, Jul 9, 1:40 PM MDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before
COZ067-092030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 139 PM MDT TUE JUL 9 1996 ...STRONG STORMS DEVELOPING OVER TELLER COUNTY... A LINE OF STORMS...SOME STRONG...WILL MOVE ALONG HIGHWAY 24 WEST OF COLORADO SPRINGS BETWEEN FLORISSANT AND CASCADE BETWEEN 130 AND 215 PM MDT. THE STRONGEST STORM WILL MOVE IN THE VICINITY OF CRYSTOLA AND GREEN MOUNTAIN FALLS BETWEEN 145 AND 200 PM MDT. THESE STORMS COULD BRING SOME HEAVY RAINFALL AT TIMES...AS WELL AS FREQUENT LIGNTNING. AT 135 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE STRONGEST STORM 5 MILES WEST OF CRYSTOLA...MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE OR WALK INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER MAY BE TOO DEEP TO ALLOW YOU TO CROSS SAFELY. FAST FLOWING WATER ONE AND A HALF FEET DEEP CAN EASILY FLIP A VEHICLE OVER OR CARRY IT DOWN A CREEK OR RIVER. WHETHER ON FOOT OR IN A VEHICLE...FIND HIGHER GROUND DURING HIGH WATER SITUATIONS. KEEP CHILDREN AWAY FROM FAST FLOWING WATER. KT
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 2:17 PM MDT, 3 hours 54 minutes before
COZ067-092105- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 216 PM MDT TUE JUL 9 1996 THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING OVER PIKES PEAK IN THE AREA OF TELLER COUNTY. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE VICINITY OF CASCADE AND MANITOU SPRINGS BETWEEN 2:15 AND 2:30 PM THIS AFTERNOON. EXPECT BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE SMALL STREAM FLOODING AROUND THE AREA. AT 2:12 PM THESE STORMS WERE 3 MILES WEST OF MANITOU SPRINGS MOVINdG EAST AT 5 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 4:37 PM MDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
COZ073-074-092340- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 437 PM MDT TUE JUL 9 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY AND WESTERN PUEBLO COUNTY AND HEURFANO COUNTY... AN AREA OF STRONG STORM WILL MOVE OVER HIGHWAY 115 IN THE VICINITY OF PENROSE IN EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY BY 450 PM AND OVER PUEBLO WEST BY 515 PM. ANOTHER STORM WILL MOVE OVER OPEN COUNTRY EAST OF COLORADO CITY THROUGH 5 PM...WITH ANOTHER STORM CROSSING OVER HIGHWAY 10 NORTHEAST OF WALSENBURGH BY 500 PM. AT 435 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THESE STORMS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF CANON CITY...WITH ANOTHER 10 MILES EAST OF COLORADO CITY...ANDD THE THIRD STORM 10 NMILES NORTHEAST OF WALSENBURG. ALL STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. KT
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 6:04 PM MDT, 7 minutes before
COZ071-100040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 603 PM MDT TUE JUL 9 1996 ...URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY EXPIRED AT 600 PM MDT... THE STRONG STORMS OVER SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY HAVE MOVED INTO PUEBLO COUNTY...THEREFORE THE URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY HAS EXPIRED. WATERS WILL CONTINUE TO SLOWLY RECEDE THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 5:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 62 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.