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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 15, 2003Teller County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at May 15, 2003, 2:21 PM MDT for Teller County, Colorado. It was in force for 84 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: May 15, 2003, 2:21 PM MDT (20:21 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 2003, 3:45 PM MDT
In force: 84 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Teller County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 193 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1868 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS55 KPUB 152025
FFWPUB
COC119-152145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
221 PM MDT THU MAY 15 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 345 PM MDT

* AT 221 PM...PUEBLO RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ON THE
  SOUTHERN EDGE OF THE HAYMAN BURN SCAR...MOVING NORTHEAST OVER THE
  BURN AREA. 

* THIS STORM WILL BE CAPAPBLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN OF ONE   
  HALF TO ONE INCH IN AN HOUR...SUFFICIENT TO CAUSE             
  FLOODING...MUDSLIDES...AND ASH FLOWS ACROSS THE BURN AREA. RAIN 
  AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE SOUTH AND WEST OF THE BURN AREA...AND  
  WILL LIKELY MOVE ACROSS THE BURN FOR THE NEXT HOUR AND A HALF.

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 3912 10505 3880 10507 3876 10530 3912 10531

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WGUS75 KPUB 152050
FFSPUB
COC119-152145-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
246 PM MDT THU MAY 15 2003

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 345 PM MDT THURSDAY 
AFTERNOON FOR THE HAYMAN BURN SCAR IN TELLER COUNTY...

AT 245 PM...PUEBLO RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE LIGHT TO MODERATE 
RAINFALL OVER THE HAYMAN BURN SCAR IN TELLER COUNTY.  WHILE THE 
STRONGEST STORM HAS MOVED NORTHEAST...LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN IS 
EXPECTED TO CONTINUE OVER THE AREA THROUGH 345 PM...AND 
THUNDERSTORMS MAY REDEVELOP OVER THE AREA.

THE MAIN THREAT FROM RAINFALL WILL BE MUDSLIDES AND ASH 
FLOWS...WHICH MAY DAMAGE OR COVER ROADWAYS. 

IN ADDITION...WATCH FOR ROCKSLIDES AND MUDSLIDES IN STEEP TERRAIN. 
WHEN DRIVING IN THIS AREA...SLOW DOWN TO AVOID HITTING ROCKS AND MUD 
ON THE ROADWAY.

LAT...LON 3911 10511 3896 10510 3894 10530 3912 10531

$$

000 
WGUS75 KPUB 152144
FFSPUB
COC119-152200-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
345 PM MDT THU MAY 15 2003

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR...

  THE HAYMAN BURN SCAR IN TELLER COUNTY...

HAS EXPIRED.

PUEBLO RADAR AND REPORTS FROM TELLER COUNTY INDICATE THAT LIGHT RAIN 
CONTINUES TO FALL OVER THE HAYMAN BURN AREA...HOWEVER ACCUMULATIONS 
ARE EXPECTED TO BE GENERALLY LESS THAN HALF AN INCH. THEREFORE THE 
WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

LAT...LON 3911 10505 3898 10506 3897 10531 3912 10531

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 15, 1:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	64 min
May 15, 2:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	67 min
May 15, 2:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa	62 min
May 15, 3:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	59 min
May 15, 3:30 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Baca	60 min
May 15, 3:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa, Prowers	66 min
May 15, 4:13 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Kiowa	62 min
May 15, 4:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	62 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.