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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 29, 2000Huerfano County, Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 29, 2000, 4:26 PM MDT for Huerfano 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 29, 2000, 4:26 PM MDT (22:26 UTC)
Expired
Aug 29, 2000, 6:30 PM MDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Huerfano County, CO, Pueblo County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 341 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, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 2000-08-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4 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, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 2000-08-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 26 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
4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-251 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2015 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
50 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 292232 COR
FFWPUB
COC055-101-300030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
426 PM MDT TUE AUG 29 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL HUERFANO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
  SOUTHWESTERN PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 630 PM MDT

* AT 426 PM MDT A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOTTER REPORTED 1.4
  INCHES OF RAIN BETWEEN 345 PM AND 425 PM...3 MILES SOUTH OF RYE    
  IN NORTH CENTRAL HUERFANO COUNTY. SMALL STREAMS WERE FLOODING AND
  THERE WAS SOME STREET FLOODING. DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED RAINFALL 
  ESTIMATES OF 1.5 TO 2 INCHES IN THE SAME AREA. 

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  WOODLAND ACRES
  RYE
  GREENHORN MTN
  COLORADO CITY

* SLOW MOVINGTHUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO REDEVELOP OVER THE WARNED 
  AREA CAUSING EXCESSIVE RAIN AMOUNTS AND FLOODING.

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 3780 10510 3771 10486 3803 10458 3808 10494

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 28, 10:46 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBEl Paso, 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.