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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 12, 1996Fremont County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 12, 1996, 4:07 PM MDT for Fremont County, Colorado. It was in force for 118 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
Jul 12, 1996, 4:07 PM MDT (22:07 UTC)
Expired
Jul 12, 1996, 6:05 PM MDT
In force
118 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Fremont County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:07 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

Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 68 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, Fort Carson/Butt, CO at 12:00Z on 1996-07-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 320 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Carson/Butt, CO at 12:00Z on 1996-07-12The 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
320 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-123 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
949 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
49 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 122206
FFWPUB
COC043-130005-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
407 PM MDT FRI JUL 12 1996

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
  SOUTHEASTERN FREMONT COUNTY - CENTRAL COLORADO

* UNTIL 605 PM MDT
 
* SOME RIVERS...CREEKS OR AREAS AFFECTED
    SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 50 AND EAST OF TEXAS CREEK IN SOUTHEAST FREEMONT
    COUNTY
    WILL AFFECT TOWNS OF ROCKVALE...COAL CREEK...WILLIAMSBURG...AND THE
    FEDERAL PRISON COMPLEX

* CAUSE AND EFFECT
    RADAR INDICATES RAINFALL BETWEEN 2 AND 3 INCHES FELL BETWEEN 300 AND
    400 PM FROM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT MOVED THROUGH THIS AREA.
    LOOK FOR CREEKS AND STREAM BEDS IN THIS AREA TO RISE QUICKLY.
    ROADS IN THIS REGION MAY QUICKLY BECOME FLOODED MAKING DRIVING
    HAZARDOUS OR IMPOSSIBLE.


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

KT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 11, 8:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBPueblo60 min
Jul 11, 9:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBPueblo78 min
Jul 11, 10:10 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBPueblo3 hr
Jul 11, 11:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBPueblo49 min
Jul 12, 12:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBTeller47 min
Jul 12, 1:11 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBTeller49 min
Jul 12, 1:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso60 min
Jul 12, 1:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBTeller61 min
Jul 12, 2:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso61 min
Jul 12, 3:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBCuster, Fremont61 min
Jul 12, 3:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso, Pueblo58 min
Jul 12, 3:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBCuster62 min
Jul 12, 4:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBOtero44 min
Jul 12, 4:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBCrowley33 min
Jul 12, 5:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBent48 min
Jul 12, 5:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBOtero47 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.