Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997

Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 5, 1997Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 5, 1997, 12:03 PM MDT for Baca 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
Aug 5, 1997, 12:03 PM MDT (18:03 UTC)
Expired
Aug 5, 1997, 2:00 PM MDT
In force
117 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Baca County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 191 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:10 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 240 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1997-08-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 534 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1997-08-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 26 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
534 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-69 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1108 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
21 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 051804 RRA
FFWPUB
COC009-052000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1203 PM MDT TUE AUG 5 1997

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
  BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO

* UNTIL 200 PM MDT
 
* SOME RIVERS...CREEKS OR AREAS AFFECTED
  ALONG HIGHWAY 160 BY VILAS
  THE VICINITY OF STONINGTON
  ALONG HIGHWAYS 287/385 NORTH OF CAMPO

* CAUSE AND EFFECT
  EXTREMELY HEAVY RAINFALL PRODUCED BY THUNDERSTORMS

* FORECAST CONDITIONS
  CONTINUED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL THROUGH 2 PM

AT 1155 PM...PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE STRONGEST STORMS
ALONG HIGHWAYS 287/385 NORTH OF CAMPO...6 MILES SOUTH OF VILAS...AND
OVER STONINGTON. THESE STORMS CONTINUED MOVING SLOWLY EAST AT 5 TO
10 MPH.

DOPPLER RADAR HAS ESTIMATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OVER PARTS OF BACA
COUNTY RANGING FROM 3 TO 4 INCHES SO FAR TODAY. THE BACA COUNTY
SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT HAS REPORTED WATER RUNNING OVER HIGHWAY 160 IN
THE VICINITY OF VILAS.

LEAVE FLOOD PRONE OR LOW LYING AREAS IMMEDIATELY.

MM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 4, 7:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso61 min
Aug 5, 10:49 AM MDTTornado WarningPUBAlamosa46 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Colorado, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997

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.