Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 9, 2004, 10:22 PM MDT for Lincoln 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
- Jul 9, 2004, 10:22 PM MDT (04:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2004, 1:15 AM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lincoln County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:23 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, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -305 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3138 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 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 KBOU 100425 FFWBOU COC073-100715- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 1022 PM MDT FRI JUL 9 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 115 AM MDT * AT 1022 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER EXTREME EAST CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY...OR ABOUT 29 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LIMON. THE STORM PRODUCING THE HEAVY RAIN WAS MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 5 MPH. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT UP TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN LINCOLN COUNTY ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF BOYERO SINCE 830 PM. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND ARROYOS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. LAT...LON 3900 10332 3898 10317 3916 10316 3916 10332 $$ RTG
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS75 KBOU 100518 FFSBOU COC073-100715- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 1115 PM MDT FRI JUL 9 2004 A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY UNTIL 115 AM MDT. AT 1115 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT RAIN HAD ENDED IN THE FLASH FLOOD AREA. THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAD FALLEN IN EAST CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY 11 MILES NORTH OF BOYERO. RADAR INDICATED UP TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN MAY HAVE FALLEN IN THIS AREA. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND ARROYOS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. LAT...LON 3916 10315 3916 10332 3901 10332 3898 10316 $$ RTG
000 WGUS75 KBOU 100705 FFSBOU COC073-100715- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 105 AM MDT SAT JUL 10 2004 THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE FOR EAST CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY AT 115 AM AT 1 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED NO FURTHER STORM DEVELOPMENT HAS OCCURRED ACROSS THE WARNING AREA. COUNTY OFFICIALS HAVE REPORTED NO FLOODING ACROSS EAST CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY. THERE MAY STILL BE SOME LOW LYING AREAS WHICH HAVE STANDING WATER. PROCEED WITH CAUTION. LAT...LON 3916 10315 3916 10332 3901 10332 3898 10316 $$ SWE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 6:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 52 min |
| Jul 9, 7:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 63 min |
| Jul 9, 7:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 61 min |
| Jul 9, 9:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 56 min |
| Jul 9, 9:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 41 min |
| Jul 9, 10:07 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 38 min |
| Jul 9, 10:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Phillips, Sedgwick | 57 min |
| Jul 9, 10:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 64 min |
| Jul 10, 5:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick | 51 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.