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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 26, 1996El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 26, 1996, 6:38 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 117 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 26, 1996, 6:38 PM MDT (00:38 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 1996, 8:35 PM MDT
In force: 117 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties

County El Paso County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:42 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, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -154 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2676 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 0 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 270038
FFWPUB
COC041-270235-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
638 PM MDT FRI JUL 26 1996

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
  WESTERN EL PASO COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL COLORADO

* UNTIL 835 PM MDT
 
* SOME RIVERS...CREEKS OR AREAS AFFECTED
    FOUNTAIN CREEK FROM GREEN MOUNTAIN FALLS TO DOWNTOWN COLORADO
    SPRINGS
    MONUMENT CREEK...AND FOUNTAIN CREEK JUNCTION
    DOWNTOWN COLORADO SPRINGS

* CAUSE AND EFFECT
    STRONG SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING 1 TO 2 INCHES OF
    RAINFALL PER HOUR WILL BRING RISING WATERS ALONG FOUNTAIN
    AND MONUMENT CREEK ESPECIALLY IN THE AREA OF I-25 AND US 24
    WHERE THE TWO RIVERS MEET.

* FORECAST CONDITIONS
    THESE STRONG STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE SLOWLY SOUTHEAST
    AFFECTING SOUTHERN COLORADO SPRINGS AND ARE CAPABLE OF
    PRODUCING ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ACROSS
    THE AREA.

SPOTTERS REPORTED 8 INCHES OF WATER ACROnSS THE ROADWAY AT B STREET AND
ACADEMY BLVD.  12 INCHES OF WATER WAS REPORTED ACROSS WALNUT ROAD IN
THE VICINITY OF I-25 AND COLORADO.

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

KT

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 26, 12:58 PM MDT, 5 hours 40 minutes before

COZ067>069-071>073-262000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1257 PM MDT FRI JUL 26 1996

...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FORMING OVER THE MOUNTAINS...

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE DEVELOPING OVER THE UPPER ARKANSAS
VALLEY AND THE PIKES PEAK REGION THROUGH THE REST OF THE
AFTERNOON. AT 1245 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT PUEBLO
SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM ALONG HIGHWAY 115 WEST OF FORT CARSON. THIS STORM
WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL BRING LIGHT SHOWERS ACROSS FORT
CARSON TO I-25 NEAR PINON BY 2 PM MDT.

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE UPPER ARKANSAS
VALLEY FROM BUENA VISTA TO THE ROYAL GORGE. THESE SHOWERS WERE MOVING
SLOWLY SOUTHEAST.

LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS ON THESE
DEVELOPING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS.

FORTUNE

Special weather statement, Jul 26, 1:41 PM MDT, 4 hours 57 minutes before

COZ067-069>071-073-262045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
141 PM MDT FRI JUL 26 1996

...THUNDERSTORMS RUMBLING ACROSS THE REGION AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON...

A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHERN TELLER COUNTY NEAR VICTOR
IS GOING TO CAUSE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL UNDER 1/2 INCH IN
DIAMETER AS IT CROSSES HIGHWAY 115 BETWEEN 2 AND 230 PM MDT.
THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER THE UPPER
ARKANSAS VALLEY AND ALONG THE WET MOUNTAINS THAT WILL EVENTUALLY DRIFT
EAST DURING THE AFTERNOON...PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL.
THESE STORMS ARE GOING TO BE MOVING SLOWLY EAST ACROSS FREMONT
AND CUSTER COUNTIES THROUGH MID AFTERNOON.

PLEASE STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION
CONCERNING THESE DEVELOPING STORMS.

SC/BF

Special weather statement, Jul 26, 5:04 PM MDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

COZ072-270010-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
504 PM MDT FRI JUL 26 1996

...STRONG STORM DEVELOPING JUST WEST OF THE AIR FORCE ADADEMY...

A STRONG STORM WILL MOVE EASTWARD FROM THE EL PASO/TELLER COUNTY BORDER
TO NEAR AIR FORCE ADACEMY BY 515 PM MDT...AND CROSS INTERSTATE 25
AND MOVE INTO THE BLACK FOREST AREA AROUND 550 PM. THESE STORMS WILL
BRING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS.

AT 500 PM MDT P:UEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS STRONG STORM 5 MILES
WEST OF THE AIR FORCE ACADEMY MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

KT

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.