Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 21, 2002, 6:05 PM MDT for Huerfano 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 as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 21, 2002, 6:05 PM MDT (00:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2002, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Huerfano County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 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 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 304 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
- 132 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -180 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3297 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 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 220005
FFWPUB
COC055-220300-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
557 PM MDT FRI JUN 21 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
HUERFANO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
* UNTIL 900 PM MDT
* SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED ACROSS SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF
HUERFANO COUNTY SINCE 300 PM...AND RADAR ESTIMATED THAT 4 TO 5
INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED. THE AFFECTED AREA OF HUERFANO COUNTY
IS MAINLY WEST OF INTERSTATE 25 AND SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 160.
* THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE MOVING ACROSS THIS AREA
THROUGH AT LEAST 730 PM...ADDING TO ANY FLOODING PROBLEMS THAT
MAY BE OCCURRING. SANTA CLARA CREEK...BEAR CREEK AND WALSEN
ARROYO ARE AFFECTED BY THIS WARNING.
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 3746 10503 3736 10502 3740 10479 3748 10471
3760 104791 follow-up statement
000 RWUS32 KPUB 220208 FFSPUB COC055-220220- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 804 PM MDT FRI JUN 21 2002 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT FOR HUERFANO COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THUNDERSTORMS ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED TO CONTINUE MOVING OVER SOUTHERN HUERFANO COUNTY...AND WATER LEVELS IN THIS AREA HAVE RECEDED. THUS FLASH FLOODING IS NO LONGER A THREAT. LAT...LON 3748 10499 3738 10497 3746 10472 3759 10480
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 6:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 86 min |
| Jun 21, 7:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Saguache | 52 min |
| Jun 22, 5:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 23 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.