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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 13, 2000Fremont County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 13, 2000, 9:20 PM MDT for Fremont 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
Aug 13, 2000, 9:20 PM MDT (03:20 UTC)
Expired
Aug 13, 2000, 11:20 PM MDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Fremont County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 228 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 00:00Z on 2000-08-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 124 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2000-08-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -21 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
124 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3255 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-11 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 KPUB 140320
FFWPUB
COC043-140520-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
920 PM MDT SUN AUG 13 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY IN CENTRAL COLORADO

* UNTIL 1120 PM MDT

* AT 915 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED     
  AROUND THREE INCHES OF RAIN SINCE 800 PM IN THE CANON CITY AREA.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  CANON CITY...
  LINCOLN PARK...  

* SLOW MOVING HEAVY RAINFALL WAS OVER A PART OF THE WARNED AREA.

IF YOU ARE IN OR CLOSE TO THE WARNED AREA GO TO HIGHER GROUND
IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT DRIVE OR WALK THROUGH WATER. YOU NEVER KNOW HOW
DEEP THE WATER REALLY IS. KEEP CHILDREN AWAY FROM FROM DRAINAGE
DITCHES AND SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER.

LAT...LON 3864 10497 3827 10495 3827 10552 3865 10552

Nearby

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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.