Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 13, 2001, 2:50 PM MDT for Fremont County, Colorado. It was in force for 115 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
- Jul 13, 2001, 2:50 PM MDT (20:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2001, 4:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Fremont County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:53 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 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -204 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1410 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 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 132055 FFWPUB COC043-132245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 250 PM MDT FRI JUL 13 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY IN CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 445 PM MDT * AT 246 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL OF 2 TO 3 INCHES BETWEEN 145 PM AND 245 PM IN AND AREA BETWEEN 2 AND 8 MILES NORTH OF CANON CITY. AT 240 PM A PERSISTENT...SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORM WAS 2 MILES NORTH OF CANON CITY. ANOTHER STORM WAS 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CANON CITY. THESE STORMS WERE NEARLY STATIONARY AND WILL PRODUCE ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN THAT WILL LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING IN THE CANON CITY...FLORENCE AND PENROSE AREA. FOUR MILE CREEK AND WILSON CREEK WILL LIKELY RISE RAPIDLY TO OR ABOVE BANK FULL. THE ARKANSAS RIVER IN CANON CITY MAY ALSO RISE RAPIDLY AS THE HEAVY RAIN DRAINS ACROSS CANON CITY. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... CANON CITY FLORENCE PENROSE 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 3864 10532 3830 10534 3829 10495 3864 10497
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 6:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 56 min |
| Jul 13, 3:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Fremont | 61 min |
| Jul 13, 5:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 94 min |
| Jul 13, 5:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, Otero | 54 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.