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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 13, 1997Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 13, 1997, 3:35 AM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 2 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
Aug 13, 1997, 3:35 AM MDT (09:35 UTC)
Expired
Aug 13, 1997, 5:35 AM MDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Prowers County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 220 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 00:00Z on 1997-08-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 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 00:00Z on 1997-08-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -3 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-173 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1062 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
24 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.

353 
RWUS01 KPUB 130935 RRA
FFWPUB
COC099-131135-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
335 AM MDT WED AUG 13 1997

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
  NORTHERN PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO

* UNTIL 535 AM MDT
 
* SOME RIVERS...CREEKS OR AREAS AFFECTED
  LAMAR AND VICINITY

* CAUSE AND EFFECT
  STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAIN.

* FORECAST CONDITIONS
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 4 AM WITH
  POTENTIAL FLOODING CONDITIONS CONTINUING THROUGH 5 AM.

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 12, 6:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBPueblo57 min
Aug 12, 9:05 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBProwers7 hr
Aug 13, 1:41 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa59 min
Aug 13, 2:11 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBent64 min
Aug 13, 3:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers33 min
Aug 13, 5:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBCrowley63 min
Aug 13, 5:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa53 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.