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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 4:26 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Huerfano, Pueblo | 2 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.