Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Sep 10, 2002, 2:42 AM MDT for Fremont County, Colorado. It was in force for 6 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
- Sep 10, 2002, 2:42 AM MDT (08:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 10, 2002, 8:40 AM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Fremont County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:43 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 247 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
- 43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1448 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 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 100842 FFWPUB COC043-101430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 240 AM MDT TUE SEP 10 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... FREMONT COUNTY IN CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 840 AM MDT * AT 240 AM...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR IS INDICATING MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN OCCURRING OVER THE IRON MOUNTAIN BURN AREA IN FREMONT COUNTY. MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. * THE STORMS THAT ARE PRODUCING THIS HEAVY RAIN ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH...HOWEVER OTHER STORMS CONTINUE TO BUILD OVER THE SAME REGION. PEOPLE IN THE IRON MOUNTAIN BURN AREA SHOULD SEEK SAFE SHELTER NOW. IF YOU ARE IN OR CLOSE TO THE WARNED AREA GO TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. PEOPLE ALONG CREEKS AND DRAINAGE AREAS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER OR STILL WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH ON FOOT OR BY VEHICLE. AS LITTLE AS 6 INCHES OF WATER MAY CAUSE YOU TO LOSE CONTROL OF YOUR VEHICLE...AND 2 FEET OF RUSHING WATER CAN CARRY AWAY MOST VEHICLES...INCLUDING SUVS AND PICKUPS. NEARLY HALF OF ALL FLOOD FATALITIES ARE VEHICLE RELATED. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS IN WATER ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND GO TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 3850 10519 3827 10518 3826 10567 3850 10568
2 follow-up statements
220 RWUS32 KPUB 101249 FFSPUB COC043-101440- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 640 AM MDT TUE SEP 10 2002 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 840 AM FOR THE IRON MOUNTAIN BURN AREA IN FREMONT COUNTY.... PERSISTENT MODERATE RAIN CONTINUES TO MOVE ACROSS THE IRON MOUNTAIN BURN AREA IN FREMONT COUNTY. RAIN...MODERATE TO HEAVY AT TIMES IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA THIS MORNING. THE STORMS THAT ARE PRODUCING THIS MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH...HOWEVER OTHER STORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE INTO THE REGION FROM THE SOUTHWEST. PEOPLE IN THE IRON MOUNTAIN BURN AREA SHOULD SEEK SAFE SHELTER NOW. IF YOU ARE IN OR CLOSE TO THE WARNED AREA GO TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. PEOPLE IN THE VICINITY OF THE IRON MOUNTAIN BURN AREA AS WELL AS ALONG CREEKS AND DRAINAGE AREAS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER OR STILL WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH ON FOOT OR BY VEHICLE. AS LITTLE AS 6 INCHES OF WATER MAY CAUSE YOU TO LOSE CONTROL OF YOUR VEHICLE...AND 2 FEET OF RUSHING WATER CAN CARRY AWAY MOST VEHICLES...INCLUDING SUVS AND PICKUPS. NEARLY HALF OF ALL FLOOD FATALITIES ARE VEHICLE RELATED. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS IN WATER ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND GO TO HIGHER GROUND. WATCH FOR ROCKSLIDES AND MUDSLIDES IN STEEP TERRAIN. WHEN DRIVING...SLOW DOWN TO AVOID HITTING ROCKS AND MUD ON THE ROADWAY. LAT...LON 3852 10501 3827 10499 3829 10564 3843 10569
121 RWUS32 KPUB 101449 FFSPUB COC043-101615- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 842 AM MDT TUE SEP 10 2002 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR... FREMONT COUNTY HAS EXPIRED. THE LATEST RADAR DATA FROM THE PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES RAINFALL HAS ENDED ACROSS THE IRON MOUNTAIN BURN AREA...WITH ONLY VERY LIGHT RAIN OR DRIZZLE EXPECTED THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE MORNING. PERSONS IN AND CLOSE TO THE IRON MOUNTAIN BURN AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT THE NEXT HOUR OR SO...AS HIGH FLOWS SLOWLY SUBSIDE ON STREAMS AND ARROYOS. LAT...LON 3868 10519 3827 10520 3828 10565 3855 10553
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.