Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 31, 2001, 4:20 PM MDT for El Paso 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
- Aug 31, 2001, 4:20 PM MDT (22:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2001, 6:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County El Paso County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:21 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1972 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 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 312229 FFWPUB COC041-010015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 420 PM MDT FRI AUG 31 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 615 PM MDT * AT 420 PM MDT...RADAR SHOWED THE HEAVY RAIN WHICH WAS OVER COLORADO SPRINGS HAS WEAKENED. HOWEVER...FLOODING IS STILL CONTINUING IN PLACES IN COLORADO SPRINGS...ESPECIALLY AT 1-25 AND BIJOU. IN ADDITION...MORE RAIN IS MOVING TOWARDS EL PASO COUNTY. IT IS NOT KNOWN AT THIS TIME IF VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL REDEVELOP IN THE COUNTY...BUT WITH THE THREAT OF MORE RAIN MOVING INTO THE REGION... THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL BE EXTENDED FOR EL PASO COUNTY. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... ALL OF EL PASO COUNTY...ESPECIALLY THE WESTERN HALF OF THE COUNTY. THIS INCLUDES ALL OF COLORADO SPRINGS AND ADJACENT AREAS. PLEASE MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR NEW MEDIA FOR UPDATES REGARDING THIS FLOODING SITUATION. LAT...LON 3910 10470 3872 10470 3875 10487 3909 10499
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 12:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 56 min |
| Aug 31, 1:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 63 min |
| Aug 31, 2:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 59 min |
| Aug 31, 2:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 61 min |
| Aug 31, 4:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 57 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.