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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 11, 1996Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 11, 1996, 10:10 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 3 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 11, 1996, 10:10 PM MDT (04:10 UTC)
Expired: Jul 12, 1996, 12:40 AM MDT
In force: 3 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 04:12 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, 4.2 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.

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: 1225 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2056 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 263 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 10.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KPUB 120409
FFWPUB
COC101-120640-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1010 PM MDT THU JUL 11 1996

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
  WESTERN PUEBLO COUNTY - SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 1240 AM MDT
 
* SOME RIVERS...CREEKS OR AREAS AFFECTED
    LOW LYING AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS IN
    THE WESTERN AREAS OF PUEBLO...AREAS IN PUEBLO WEST
    HIGHWAYS 50...96 AND 78...PUEBLO BOULEVARD

* CAUSE AND EFFECT
    SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH PUEBLO WEST AND THE CITY
    OF PUEBLO

* FORECAST CONDITIONS
    THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ALONG AND WEST OF I-25 THROUGH
    MIDNIGHT

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

RMG

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, Jul 11, 6:44 PM MDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before

COZ072-073-120150-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
644 PM MDT THU JUL 11 1996

...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN NORTHERN EL PASO AND NORTHERN PUEBLO
   COUNTIES...

A THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS HIGHWAYS 50/96 BETWEEN PUEBLO AND
AVONDALE BY 700 PM MDT AND ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE BETWEEN
MONUMENT AND COLORADO SPRINGS ALONG INTERSTATE 25 THROUGH 715 PM MDT.
AT 644 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS 11
MILES NORTH OF DOWNTOWN COLORADO SPRINGS AND 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF
DOWNTOWN PUEBLO.  THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT
10 MPH.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN BRING DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND MAY PRODUCE 1/2
INCH DIAMETERT OR SMALLER HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AROUND 45 MPH AND BRIEF
HEAVY RAINFALL.

STAY TUNED FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS WEATHER SITUATION.

JK

Special weather statement, Jul 11, 7:52 PM MDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before

COZ068-071-073-120250-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
752 PM MDT THU JUL 11 1996

...THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHERN EL PASO AND EASTERN FREMONT
   COUNTIES AND EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO NORTHWESTERN PUEBLO COUNTY...

THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE ALONG AND WEST OF INTERSTATE 25
SOUTH OF FOUNTAIN THROUGH 800 PM MDT AND THEN ARE EXPECTED TO AFFECT
THE COMMUNITIES OF PINON AND PUEBLO WEST BY 830 PM MDT WHILE ANOTHER
THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO MOVE BETWEEN CANON CITY AND THE ROYAL GORGE
THROUGH 830 PM MDT.  AT 752 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF CANON CITY AND 9 MILES NORTH
OF PUEBLO WEST IN PUEBLO COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE
SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN BRING DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND MAY PRODUCE 1/2
INCH DIAMETER OR SMALLER HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AROUND 45 MPH AND BRIEF
HEAVY RAINFALL.

JK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 11, 8:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	60 min
Jul 11, 9:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	78 min
Jul 11, 11:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	49 min
Jul 12, 12:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Teller	47 min
Jul 12, 1:11 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Teller	49 min
Jul 12, 1:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	60 min
Jul 12, 1:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Teller	61 min
Jul 12, 2:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	61 min
Jul 12, 3:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Custer, Fremont	61 min
Jul 12, 3:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Pueblo	58 min
Jul 12, 3:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Custer	62 min
Jul 12, 4:07 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Fremont	118 min
Jul 12, 4:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Otero	44 min
Jul 12, 4:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley	33 min
Jul 12, 5:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent	48 min
Jul 12, 5:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Otero	47 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Colorado, 1996 Every 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.