Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 13, 2001, 5:15 PM MDT for Washington County, Colorado. It was in force for 105 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
- Aug 13, 2001, 5:15 PM MDT (23:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2001, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 105 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Washington County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:17 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 248 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
- 45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -225 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1135 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS55 KBOU 132317 FFWDEN COC121-140100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 515 PM MDT MON AUG 13 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRAL WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 700 PM MDT * AT 514 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN 6 MILES EAST OF ELBA...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF AKRON. THE STORMS PRODUCING THE HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. RADAR ESTIMATES UP TO 7 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN JUST NORTHEAST OF ELBA OVER THE PAST FEW HOURS. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...ELBA. 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 SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND ARROYOS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. LAT...LON 4003 10323 3989 10323 3989 10292 4004 10292 KLEYLA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 1:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Denver | 46 min |
| Aug 13, 2:17 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Denver | 28 min |
| Aug 13, 2:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Douglas, Jefferson | 45 min |
| Aug 13, 2:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Washington | 29 min |
| Aug 13, 3:30 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOU | Washington | 90 min |
| Aug 13, 4:02 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOU | Washington | 88 min |
| Aug 13, 4:55 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOU | Washington | 95 min |
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.