Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 10, 2003, 8:22 PM MDT for Teller County, Colorado. It was in force for 113 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
- Aug 10, 2003, 8:22 PM MDT (02:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2003, 10:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 113 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), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:26 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, 2.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3256 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS55 KPUB 110224 FFWPUB COC119-110415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 822 PM MDT SUN AUG 10 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... THE HAYMAN BURN SCAR IN TELLER COUNTY IN CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 1015 PM MDT * AT 820 PM...RADAR INDICATED RAINFALL OF UP TO AN INCH OVER THE HAYMAN BURN SCAR IN TELLER COUNTY. * THIS STORM IS NEARLY STATIONARY...AND WILL BUILD SLOWLY TO THE NORTHEAST. AREAS AFFECTED WILL BE MAINLY FROM NORTH OF FLORISSANT TO THE NORTHERN COUNTY LINE. 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 10517 3900 10517 3899 10532 3912 10531 $$
4 follow-up statements
000 WGUS75 KPUB 110246 FFSPUB COC119-110415- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 842 PM MDT SUN AUG 10 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1015 PM MDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR THE HAYMAN BURN SCAR IN TELLER COUNTY... AT 840 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED THAT ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN OVER THE HAYMAN BURN SCAR...PRIMARILY INTO THE CRYSTAL CREEK AND BEAVER CREEK DRAINAGES. THIS STORM IS NEARLY STATIONARY...AND IS BUILDING SLOWLY NORTHEAST. THIS AMOUNT OF RAINFALL IS LIKELY CAUSING MUD AND ASH FLOWS...AND MAY WASH OUT ROADWAYS. BE ALERT FOR FAST RISING WATER AND BE READY TO TAKE QUICK ACTION IF NECESSARY. DO NOT DRIVE OR WALK INTO WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. AS LITTLE AS 6 INCHES OF WATER MAY CAUSE YOU TO LOSE CONTROL OF YOUR VEHICLE...AND 2 FEET OF RUSHING WATER CAN CARRY AWAY MOST VEHICLES... INCLUDING SUVS AND PICKUPS. NEARLY HALF OF ALL FLOOD FATALITIES ARE VEHICLE RELATED. KEEP CHILDREN AND OTHERS AWAY FROM FAST FLOWING WATER AND STORM DRAINS...WHICH COULD BECOME DEADLY DURING HIGH WATER. FLOODING WILL OCCUR ALONG CREEKS...IN DRAINAGE AREAS...IN UNDERPASSES...OVER STREETS AND RURAL ROADS...IN NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND ARROYOS...AND OVER LOW LYING LAND ALONG CREEK BANKS. WATCH FOR ROCKSLIDES AND MUDSLIDES IN STEEP TERRAIN. WHEN DRIVING... SLOW DOWN TO AVOID HITTING ROCKS AND MUD ON THE ROADWAY. LAT...LON 3912 10511 3909 10511 3899 10531 3912 10532 $$
000 WGUS75 KPUB 110312 FFSPUB COC119-110415- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 907 PM MDT SUN AUG 10 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1015 PM MDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR THE HAYMAN BURN SCAR IN TELLER COUNTY... AT 905 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED THAT ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN OVER THE HAYMAN BURN SCAR...INTO THE CRYSTAL CREEK AND BEAVER CREEK DRAINAGES. THIS STORM IS BUILDING SLOWLY NORTHEAST...AND IS ALSO SHOWING ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAINFALL IN THE TURKEY CREEK BASIN AND TRAIL CREEK DRAINAGES. THIS AMOUNT OF RAINFALL IS LIKELY CAUSING VERY DANGEROUS MUD AND ASH FLOWS...AND MAY WASH OUT ROADWAYS. 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 AND STORM DRAINS...WHICH COULD BECOME DEADLY DURING HIGH WATER. FLOODING WILL OCCUR ALONG CREEKS...IN DRAINAGE AREAS...IN UNDERPASSES...OVER STREETS AND RURAL ROADS...IN NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND ARROYOS...AND OVER LOW LYING LAND ALONG CREEK BANKS. WATCH FOR ROCKSLIDES AND MUDSLIDES IN STEEP TERRAIN. WHEN DRIVING... SLOW DOWN TO AVOID HITTING ROCKS AND MUD ON THE ROADWAY. LAT...LON 3912 10511 3909 10511 3899 10531 3912 10532 $$
000 WGUS75 KPUB 110346 FFSPUB COC119-110415- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 944 PM MDT SUN AUG 10 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1015 PM MDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR THE HAYMAN BURN SCAR IN TELLER COUNTY... AT 940 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED THAT ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN OVER THE HAYMAN BURN SCAR. THIS RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED IN THE CRYSTAL CREEK...BEAVER CREEK...TURKEY CREEK...AND TRAIL CREEK DRAINAGES. THIS AMOUNT OF RAINFALL IS LIKELY CAUSING VERY DANGEROUS MUD AND ASH FLOWS...AND MAY WASH OUT ROADWAYS. THE STRONGEST STORMS AT 940 PM WERE LOCATED ALONG THE NORTHERN BORDER OF TELLER COUNTY...MOVING SOUTH AROUND 5 MPH. BE ALERT FOR FAST RISING WATER AND BE READY TO TAKE QUICK ACTION IF NECESSARY. DO NOT DRIVE OR WALK INTO WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. AS LITTLE AS 6 INCHES OF WATER MAY CAUSE YOU TO LOSE CONTROL OF YOUR VEHICLE...AND 2 FEET OF RUSHING WATER CAN CARRY AWAY MOST VEHICLES... INCLUDING SUVS AND PICKUPS. NEARLY HALF OF ALL FLOOD FATALITIES ARE VEHICLE RELATED. KEEP CHILDREN AND OTHERS AWAY FROM FAST FLOWING WATER AND STORM DRAINS...WHICH COULD BECOME DEADLY DURING HIGH WATER. FLOODING WILL OCCUR ALONG CREEKS...IN DRAINAGE AREAS...IN UNDERPASSES...OVER STREETS AND RURAL ROADS...IN NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND ARROYOS...AND OVER LOW LYING LAND ALONG CREEK BANKS. WATCH FOR ROCKSLIDES AND MUDSLIDES IN STEEP TERRAIN. WHEN DRIVING... SLOW DOWN TO AVOID HITTING ROCKS AND MUD ON THE ROADWAY. LAT...LON 3912 10511 3909 10511 3899 10531 3912 10532 $$
000 WGUS75 KPUB 110416 FFSPUB COC119-110430- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1015 PM MDT SUN AUG 10 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE HAYMAN BURN SCAR IN TELLER COUNTY... HAS EXPIRED. THE HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH WAS FALLING OVER THE BURN SCAR HAS DIMINISHED IN INTENSITY. WHILE LIGHT RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL OVER MOST OF THE BURN AREA...HEAVY RAINFALL IS NOT EXPECTED TO CONTINUE AT THIS TIME. BE ALERT FOR ROADWAYS WHICH MAY HAVE WASHED OUT DURING THE HEAVY RAINFALL...AND FOR MUD AND ASH FLOWS WHICH MAY HAVE OCCURRED. LAT...LON 3912 10511 3909 10511 3899 10531 3912 10532 $$
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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.