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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 3, 2002Teller County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 3, 2002, 4:48 PM MDT for Teller County, Colorado. It was in force for 117 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 3, 2002, 4:48 PM MDT (22:48 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2002, 6:45 PM MDT
In force: 117 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Teller County, CO

The radar

The Denver radar (KFTG), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:49 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 191 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 295 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -378 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2757 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -17 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS55 KPUB 032248
FFWPUB
COC119-040045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
445 PM MDT WED JUL 3 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  TELLER COUNTY IN CENTRAL COLORADO

* UNTIL 645 PM MDT

* THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO SLOWLY MOVE NORTH OVER PORTIONS OF THE   
  HAYMAN FIRE BURN AREA IN TELLER COUNTY. ALTHOUGH THE STRONGEST     
  STORM HAS MOVED NORTH AND INTO PARK COUNTY...RADAR ESTIMATES OF    
  OVER AN INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLENING IN THE PAST OVER NORTHWEST      
  TELLER COUNTY. BECAUSE OF THE VERY POOR ABSORPTION OF  MOISTURE BY 
  THE SOIL IN THE BURN AREA...VERY RAPID RISES IN CREEKS AND STREAMS 
  CAN OCCUR...EVEN WITH MODESTLY STRONG RAINFALL.  ASH FLOWS ARE     
  ALSO POSSIBLE IN THE BURN AREA.  ONCE AGAIN...THE FLASH FLOOD      
  WARNING IS ONLY FOR THE HAYMAN BURN AREA...AND REGIONS VERY CLOSE  
  TO THE BURN AREA IN TELLER COUNTY. 


* AT 440 PM...A THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED BETWEEN THE CHEESMAN AND    
  THE TERRYALL RESERVOIRS...AND IT WAS SLOWLY BUILDING BACK ACROSS   
  EXTREME NORTHWESTERN TELLER COUNTY. DRAINAGES IN THE  HAYMAN BURN  
  AREA WILL BE PRONE TO VERY RAPID RISES. 

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 3913 10505 3888 10504 3884 10531 3912 10535

2 follow-up statements

000 
RWUS32 KPUB 040005
FFSPUB
COC119-040100-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
605 PM MDT WED JUL 3 2002

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 645 PM MDT 
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR THE HAYMAN BURN AREA OF TELLER COUNTY...

ALTHOUGH THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE HAYMAN BURN AREA...A 
FLASH WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWESTERN TELLER COUNTY...AS  
RADAR ESTMIMATES OF BETWEEN ONE AND TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN 
THE PAST 3 HOURS ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE HAYMAN BURN SCAR...BETWEEN 
LAKE GEORGE AND THE CHEESMAN RESOVIOR.  

IN THE HAYMAN BURN AREA...AND REGIONS VERY CLOSE TO THE BURN 
AREA...RAINFALL TOTALS OF 1/2 INCH OR GREATER CAN CAUSE VERY 
RAPID RISES IN CREEKS AND STREAMS...AS WELL AS ASH FLOWS AND 
ROCKSLIDES.  

BE ALERT FOR FAST RISING WATER AND BE READY TO TAKE QUICK ACTION IF
NECESSARY. DO NOT DRIVE OR WALK INTO WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. KEEP
CHILDREN AND OTHERS AWAY FROM FAST FLOWING WATER. FLOODING WILL OCCUR
ALONG CREEKS...OVER RURAL ROADS...IN NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND 
ARROYOS...AND OVER LOW LYING LAND ALONG CREEK BANKS.

LAT...LON 3913 10522 3902 10521 3895 10532 3913 10533

000 
RWUS32 KPUB 040049
FFSPUB
COC119-0401000-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
649 PM MDT WED JUL 3 2002

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE HAYMAN BURN 
AREA OF TELLER COUNTY UNTIL 645 PM MDT HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE...

THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE HAYMAN BURN AREA IN NORTHWEST TELLER COUNTY 
HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE AREA. HEAVY RAINFALL IS NO LONGER EXPECTED 
ACROSS THE BURN AREA...ALLOWING FOR THE EXPIRATION OF THE FLASH 
FLOOD WARNING. 

LAT...LON 3913 10512 3901 10521 3895 10532 3912 10532

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 2, 7:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	66 min
Jul 2, 8:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	87 min
Jul 2, 10:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	55 min
Jul 3, 2:42 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Teller	108 min
Jul 3, 3:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Larimer	85 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Colorado, 2002 Every flash flood warning in 2002

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.