Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 9, 2003, 1:46 PM MDT for Rio Grande 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
- Aug 9, 2003, 1:46 PM MDT (19:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2003, 4:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Rio Grande County, CO
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 212 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:49 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
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 234 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
- 2496 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 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 091953 FFWPUB COC105-092245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 146 PM MDT SAT AUG 9 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MILLION BURN SCAR IN RIO GRANDE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 445 PM MDT * A STRONG THUNDERSTORM...PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...WILL MOVE ACROSS THE MILLION BURN SCAR THROUGH 545 PM. THIS AT 148 PM...THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SOUTH FORK...AND WAS MOVING SLOWLY TO THE EAST AT 5 MPH. * THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL IS EXPECTED TO OCCUR ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF THE BURN SCAR...AFFECTING THE WILLOW CREEK AREA. RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO AN INCH PER HOUR IS POSSIBLE IN THIS AREA. PEOPLE IN OR NEAR THE MILLION BURN SCAR...ESPECIALLY NEAR THE WILLOW CREEK AREA...SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. 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 3769 10652 3760 10652 3759 10669 3769 10667 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS75 KPUB 092052 FFSPUB COC105-092245- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 245 PM MDT SAT AUG 9 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 445 PM MDT SATURDAY AFTERNOON FOR THE MILLION BURN SCAR IN RIO GRANDE COUNTY... A STRONG STORM...WHICH PRODUCED LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...HAS MOVED ACROSS EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE MILLION BURN SCAR BETWEEN 140 PM AND 210 PM. RADAR ESTIMATED THAT UP TO 0.30 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE BURN SCAR DURING THIS TIME FRAME...HOWEVER LOCALLY HEAVIER AMOUNTS ARE POSSIBLE. THIS STORM HAS MOVED EAST OF THE AREA...AND IS LOCATED 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF DEL NORTE. HOWEVER...NEW THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WAS OCCURRING WEST OF THE BURN SCAR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY MOVE INTO THE AREA SHORTLY AFTER 300 PM...AS THEY MOVE SLOWLY TO THE EAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH. ALTHOUGH RAINFALL HAS TEMPORARILY ENDED ACROSS THE MILLION BURN SCAR...MORE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BRING ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL TO THE AREA AFTER 300 PM. CREEKS AND DRY WASHES...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE BURN SCAR MAY EXPERIENCING FLASH FLOODING AND MUD AND ASH FLOWS THROUGH 445 PM...ESPECIALLY ALONG THE WILLOW CREEK DRAINAGE. BE ALERT FOR FAST RISING WATER AND BE READY TO TAKE QUICK ACTION IF NECESSARY. DO NOT DRIVE OR WALK INTO WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. AS LITTLE AS 6 INCHES OF WATER MAY CAUSE YOU TO LOSE CONTROL OF YOUR VEHICLE...AND 2 FEET OF RUSHING WATER CAN CARRY AWAY MOST VEHICLES... INCLUDING SUVS AND PICKUPS. NEARLY HALF OF ALL FLOOD FATALITIES ARE VEHICLE RELATED. KEEP CHILDREN AND OTHERS AWAY FROM FAST FLOWING WATER. FLOODING WILL OCCUR ALONG CREEKS...IN DRAINAGE AREAS...OVER RURAL ROADS...IN NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND ARROYOS...AND OVER LOW LYING LAND ALONG CREEK BANKS. LAT...LON 3768 10654 3762 10655 3759 10668 3767 10668 $$
000 WGUS75 KPUB 092152 FFSPUB COC105-092215- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 350 PM MDT SAT AUG 9 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE MILLION BURN SCAR IN RIO GRANDE COUNTY... HAS BEEN CANCELED. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED EAST OF THE AREA AND ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL IS NO LONGER EXPECTED. THUS THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. RADAR ESTIMATED THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL OCCURRED ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF THE BURN SCAR...ALONG AND EAST OF THE WILLOW CREEK AREA. HOWEVER...SPOTTERS IN THE AREA REPORTED THAT THE HEAVIER RAINFALL OCCURRED JUST EAST OF THE MILLION BURN SCAR. NO FLASH FLOODING WAS REPORTED...HOWEVER...REMOTE AREAS ON THE EASTERN EDGE OF THE BURN SCAR MAY HAVE EXPERIENCED WASH OUTS...AND MINOR MUD AND ASH FLOWS. USE CAUTION IF YOU WILL BE IN THIS AREA THIS EVENING...AS ROADS AND TRAILS MAY HAVE EXPERIENCED SOME MINOR WASH OUTS. LAT...LON 3767 10653 3761 10657 3759 10668 3767 10667 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 2:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 92 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Colorado, 2003Every flash flood warning in 2003
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.