Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001

Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 7, 2001Bent County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 7, 2001, 3:44 PM MDT for Bent County, Colorado. It was in force for 3 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: Jun 7, 2001, 3:44 PM MDT (21:44 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2001, 6:15 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Bent County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 189 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 499 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -246 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1015 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 152 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS55 KPUB 072144
FFWPUB
COC011-080015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
344 PM MDT THU JUN 7 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN BENT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 615 PM MDT

* AT 342 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED 3
  TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN SINCE AROUND 200 PM.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  OPEN COUNTRY OF NORTHERN BENT COUNTY
  MCCLAVE
  HASTY
  FORT LYON

* 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. DO NOT DRIVE OR WALK THROUGH WATSER. YOU NEVER KNOW 
HOW DEEP THE WATER REALLY IS. KEEP CHILDREN AWAY FROM FROM DRAINAGE 
DITCHES AND SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER.

LAT...LON 3826 10273 3808 10273 3807 10324 3826 10323

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 1:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	85 min
Jun 7, 1:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Prowers	97 min
Jun 7, 2:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	69 min
Jun 7, 2:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	92 min
Jun 7, 3:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent	88 min
Jun 7, 3:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	76 min
Jun 7, 4:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Teller	54 min
Jun 7, 4:27 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent	63 min
Jun 7, 4:35 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	El Paso	55 min
Jun 7, 4:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	62 min
Jun 7, 5:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Custer	90 min
Jun 7, 5:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	61 min
Jun 7, 5:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent	60 min
Jun 7, 5:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	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.