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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 28, 2000El Paso County, Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 28, 2000, 10:46 PM MDT for El Paso County, Pueblo 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 28, 2000, 10:46 PM MDT (04:46 UTC)
Expired
Aug 29, 2000, 1:00 AM MDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties El Paso County, CO, Pueblo County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:48 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, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 181 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 2000-08-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 28 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2000-08-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 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
28 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-126 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1957 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
81 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 290449
FFWPUB
COC041-101-290700-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1046 PM MDT MON AUG 28 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF COLORADO SPRINGS
  WESTERN PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF PUEBLO

* UNTIL 100 AM MDT

* AT 1046 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED    
  THAT 3 TO 6 INCHES OF RAIN FELL IN THE VICINITY OF HIGHWAY 94      
  BETWEEN PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE AND ELLICOTT IN EL PASO COUNTY     
  SINCE 600 PM MDT.  ALSO...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR   
  ESTIMATED THAT 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN FELL JUST TO THE WEST AND     
  NORTHWEST OF PUEBLO WEST IN PUEBLO COUNTY SINCE 730 PM MDT.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  COLORADO SPRINGS...
  FOUNTAIN...
  PUEBLO WEST...
  PUEBLO...

*THUNDERSTORMS WITH INTENSE RAINFALL ARE CONTINUING TO RE-DEVELOP    
 OVER THE REGION.

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 3911 10432 3790 10452 3791 10493 3910 10487

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 29, 4:26 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBHuerfano, Pueblo2 hr

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.