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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Pueblo, CO
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.
- 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
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.
KTThe 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, 10:10 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 3 hr |
| 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, 4:46 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 |
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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.