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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

June 27, 2000Jefferson County, Park County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 2000, 3:30 PM MDT for Jefferson County, Park County, Colorado. It was in force for 90 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
Jun 27, 2000, 3:30 PM MDT (21:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 2000, 5:00 PM MDT
In force
90 min
Issued by
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Jefferson County, CO, Park County, CO

The radar

The Denver radar (KFTG), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:30 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 191 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2000-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2000-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 46 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
558 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
65 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 
WGUS55 KBOU 272128
FFWBOU
COC059-093-272300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
330 PM MDT TUE JUN 27 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WEST CENTRAL JEFFERSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO
  EXTREME NORTHEAST PARK COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 5 PM MDT

* AT 325 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 5 MILES NORTH OF PINE.  THE STORM WAS MOVING
SOUTH TOWARDS THE HI MEADOW BURN AREA AT ABOUT 10 MILES PER HOUR.

RADAR INDICATED UP TO A HALF INCH OF RAIN HAS OCCURRED IN 30 MINUTES
WITH THE STORM.

LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO... THE HI
MEADOW BURN AREA AS WELL AS POINTS DOWNSTREAM ALONG THE NORTH FORK
OF THE SOUTH PLATTE RIVER...INCLUDING PINE AND RIVERVIEW.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY
AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK
HIGHER GROUND.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS
AND STREAMS IN THE HI MEADOW BURN AREA...ROADS AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS.
THEy HEAVY RAINS COULD ALSO TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES IN STEEP
TERRAIN.

LAT...LON 3941 10544 3939 10541 3940 10532 3946 10534
          3946 10538

COOPER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 5:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUMorgan, Weld45 min
Jun 27, 5:37 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUMorgan23 min
Jun 27, 5:58 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUAdams47 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Colorado, 2000Every flash flood warning in 2000

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.