Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 9, 2004, 4:27 PM MDT for Teller 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
- Jun 9, 2004, 4:27 PM MDT (22:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2004, 7:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Teller County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:29 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -342 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1625 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 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 092228 FFWPUB COC119-100130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 427 PM MDT WED JUN 9 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN TELLER COUNTY IN CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 730 PM MDT * AT 421 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN HEADING TOWARDS THE HAYMAN BURN SCAR. THIS RAIN WILL BE CAPABLE OF CAUSING FLOODING ACROSS THE HAYMAN BURN SCAR AREA IN TELLER COUNTY. JUST A SMALL AMOUNT OF RAINFALL ON A BURN SCAR CAN LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. WATER THAT IS NORMALLY ABSORBED BY VEGETATION...RUNS OFF ALMOST INSTANTLY. THIS CAUSES CREEKS AND DRAINAGE AREAS TO FLOOD AT A MUCH FASTER RATE THAN NORMAL. ADDITIONALLY...THE SOILS IN A BURN SCAR BECOME VERY UNSTABLE WHEN IT RAINS. ENTIRE HILLSIDES CAN BREAK AWAY...CREATING DEVASTATING ROCK SLIDES...MUDSLIDES...AND DEBRIS FLOWS. ROADWAYS ARE OFTEN DESTROYED BY THE POWERFUL FORCE OF THE RUSHING WATER AND DEBRIS...ESPECIALLY IF THEY PASS THROUGH A CREEK BED OR OTHER DRAINAGE AREA. LAT...LON 3912 10539 3896 10532 3982 10389 4014 10430 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS75 KPUB 092242 FFSPUB COC119-100130- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 440 PM MDT WED JUN 9 2004 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR HAYMAN BURN SCAR UNTIL 730 PM... AT 440 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED UP TO AN INCH OF RAIN MAY HAVE FALLEN OVER THE HAYMAN BURN SCAR AREA IN NORTHWEST TELLER COUNTY. THIS RAIN WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING IN THE BURN SCAR REGION. BASED ON CURRENT TRENDS...THE RAINS SHOULD END OVER THE BURN SCAR BY 5 PM. WATCH FOR ROCKSLIDES AND MUDSLIDES IN STEEP TERRAIN. WHEN DRIVING... SLOW DOWN TO AVOID HITTING ROCKS AND MUD ON THE ROADWAY. $$
000 WGUS75 KPUB 092307 FFSPUB COC119-100000- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 505 PM MDT WED JUN 9 2004 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELED FOR THE HAYMAN BURN SCAR... AT 500 PM MDT...THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN OVER THE HAYMAN BURN SCAR...IN TELLER COUNTY...HAD WEAKENED AND MOVED NORTHEAST OF THE BURN SCAR. THUS...THE THREAT FOR FLASH FLOODING HAS DIMINISHED FOR THE HAYMAN BURN SCAR. WATCH FOR PAST ROCKSLIDES AND MUDSLIDES IN STEEP TERRAIN. WHEN DRIVING...SLOW DOWN TO AVOID HITTING ROCKS AND MUD ON THE ROADWAY. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 7:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 61 min |
| Jun 9, 1:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 59 min |
| Jun 9, 2:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 91 min |
| Jun 9, 3:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 54 min |
| Jun 9, 3:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley | 52 min |
| Jun 9, 4:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 86 min |
| Jun 9, 5:39 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Prowers | 66 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Colorado, 2004Every flash flood warning in 2004
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.