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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 5, 2001Fremont County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 5, 2001, 8:03 PM MDT for Fremont 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
Aug 5, 2001, 8:03 PM MDT (02:03 UTC)
Expired
Aug 5, 2001, 11:00 PM MDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Fremont County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 228 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2001-08-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 126 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2001-08-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -133 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
126 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3105 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-133 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-1.5

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The text

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

000 
WGUS55 KPUB 060205
FFWPUB
COC043-060500-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
803 PM MDT SUN AUG 5 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY IN CENTRAL COLORADO

* UNTIL 1100 PM MDT

* AT 803 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED 3 
TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN SINCE 5 PM JUST NORTH OF PENROSE...ALONG THE 
BEAVER CREEK AND EIGHT MILE CREEK DRAINAGES. 

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  WILLIAMSBURG
  ROCKVALE
  PENROSE
  FLORENCE
  COAL CREEK

* SLOW MOVING HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 9 PM OVER THE   
  AREA...WITH AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL EXPECTED. 

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 3852 10529 3830 10514 3830 10495 3863 10497
          3867 10545

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Colorado, 2001Every flash flood warning in 2001

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.