Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 34, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 19, 2004, 4:30 AM MDT for Crowley 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 19, 2004, 4:30 AM MDT (10:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2004, 7:30 AM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Crowley County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:32 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 592 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 246 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 191036 FFWPUB COC025-191330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 430 AM MDT THU AUG 19 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EASTERN CROWLEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 730 AM MDT * AT 427 AM MDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED WATER FLOWING OVER HIGHWAY 96 APPROXIMATELY 4 MILES EAST OF SUGAR CITY CAUSED BY VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME EAST CENTRAL CROWLEY COUNTY...OR ABOUT 26 MILES NORTH OF LA JUNTA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL BE... ACROSS EXTREME EASTERN CROWLEY COUNTY THROUGH 530 AM AND WILL CONTINUE TO WEAKEN QUICKLY THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. 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. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. LAT...LON 3827 10369 3819 10350 3851 10351 3851 10373 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS75 KPUB 191201 FFSPUB COC025-191330- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 555 AM MDT THU AUG 19 2004 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN CROWLEY COUNTY UNTIL 730 AM MDT THURSDAY MORNING... HEAVY RAINS FROM THUNDERSTORMS WHICH OCCURRED OVERNIGHT HAVE CAUSED FLOODING OF HIGHWAY 96 AROUND 4 MILES EAST OF SUGAR CITY. LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTS THAT HIGHWAY 96 IN THIS AREA IS UNDER WATER AND IS STILL CLOSED. SEVERAL HOMES IN THE AREA HAVE BEEN EVACUATED. PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT BETWEEN 3 AND 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER EASTERN CROWLEY COUNTY SINCE LAST EVENING...WITH ANOTHER BAND OF LIGHT RAINFALL MOVING INTO THE AREA. FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH 730 AM BEFORE THE WATER GRADUALLY RECEDES LATER THIS MORNING. BE ALERT FOR FAST RISING WATER AND BE READY TO TAKE QUICK ACTION IF NECESSARY. DO NOT DRIVE OR WALK INTO WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. AS LITTLE AS 6 INCHES OF WATER MAY CAUSE YOU TO LOSE CONTROL OF YOUR VEHICLE...AND 2 FEET OF RUSHING WATER CAN CARRY AWAY MOST VEHICLES... INCLUDING SUVS AND PICKUPS. NEARLY HALF OF ALL FLOOD FATALITIES ARE VEHICLE RELATED. KEEP CHILDREN AND OTHERS AWAY FROM FAST FLOWING WATER. FLOODING WILL OCCUR ALONG CREEKS...IN DRAINAGE AREAS...OVER RURAL ROADS...IN NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND ARROYOS...AND OVER LOW LYING LAND ALONG CREEK BANKS. $$
000 WGUS75 KPUB 191337 FFSPUB COC025-191400- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 730 AM MDT THU AUG 19 2004 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELED FOR EASTERN CROWLEY COUNTY... ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN IS NO LONGER EXPECTED ACROSS CROWLEY COUNTY THIS MORNING...AND ADDITIONAL FLASH FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED. HOWEVER...CREEKS...STREAMS AND NORMALLY DRY WASHES IN THE AREA CONTINUE TO RUN FULL WITH WATER...WITH SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING OCCURRING...ESPECIALLY IN LOW LYING AREAS NEAR STREAMS AND CREEKS. A FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR CROWLEY COUNTY TO ADDRESS THE CONTINUED FLOODING DUE TO RUNOFF. 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. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 6:32 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Chaffee | 3 hr |
| Aug 18, 8:50 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Otero | 3 hr |
| Aug 18, 9:27 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Chaffee | 3 hr |
| Aug 18, 9:44 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Crowley | 4 hr |
| Aug 18, 11:12 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Bent | 3 hr |
| Aug 18, 11:32 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Otero | 3 hr |
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.