Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 36, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Sep 24, 2004, 6:53 PM MDT for Prowers 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
- Sep 24, 2004, 6:53 PM MDT (00:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 24, 2004, 10:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Prowers County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:56 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 2709 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 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 250100 FFWPUB COC099-250400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 653 PM MDT FRI SEP 24 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 1000 PM MDT * AT 645 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED NEW THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER AREAS OF NORTHEAST PROWERS COUNTY WHERE HEAVY RAIN FELL EARLIER. LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED HORSE CREEK AND WEST WILDHORSE CREEK...13 MILES NORTH OF HOLLY ALONG ROAD 35 AND 37...WERE OUT OF THEIR AND RUNNING FAST. EMERGENCY OFFICIALS WERE OPENING CANALS SOUTH OF THE HEAVY RAIN AREA TO TRY AND MITIGATE DOWNSTREAM HIGH WATER. THUNDERSTORMS WERE 6 MILES NORTH OF HARTMAN...OR ABOUT 24 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAMAR. THE STORM PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. * THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL BE OVER... RURAL NORTHEASTERN PROWERS COUNTY THROUGH 800 PM MDT. 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. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. LAT...LON 3823 10231 3810 10233 3806 10208 3822 10208 $$
3 follow-up statements
000 WGUS75 KPUB 250155 FFSPUB COC099-250400- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 746 PM MDT FRI SEP 24 2004 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PROWERS COUNTY UNTIL 1000 PM MDT FRIDAY EVENING... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PRODUCED HEAVY RAIN OVER THE NORTHERN HALF OF PROWERS COUNTY. FLOODING WAS REPORTED ALONG HORSE CREEK...WEST WILDHORSE CREEK FROM 5 TO 15 MILES NORTH OF HOLLY. RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS SUGGEST THAT FLOODING MAY ALSO BE OCCURRING ALONG BEAR CREEK. NEW THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER THE SAME AREA AND WILL PRODUCE AN ADDITION 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN BETWEEN 800 PM AND 1000 PM. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALSO DEVELOPED OVER LAMAR AND GRANADA AND WILL PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IN EXCESS OF 2 INCHES BETWEEN 800 PM AND 1000 PM. STRONG FLOWS AND HIGH WATER WILL DEVELOP OVER MUCH OF NORTHERN PROWERS COUNTY IN THE SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS AS WELL AS CANALS AND DRAINAGE DITCHES. STREET FLOODING IS LIKELY IN THE LAMAR AREA WITH STANDING WATER ROADS WITH HIGH WATER RUNNING IN CANALS AND DRAINAGE DITCHES. BE ALERT FOR FAST RISING WATER AND BE READY TO TAKE QUICK ACTION IF NECESSARY. DO NOT DRIVE OR WALK INTO WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. AS LITTLE AS 6 INCHES OF WATER MAY CAUSE YOU TO LOSE CONTROL OF YOUR VEHICLE...AND 2 FEET OF RUSHING WATER CAN CARRY AWAY MOST VEHICLES... INCLUDING SUVS AND PICKUPS. NEARLY HALF OF ALL FLOOD FATALITIES ARE VEHICLE RELATED. KEEP CHILDREN AND OTHERS AWAY FROM FAST FLOWING WATER AND STORM DRAINS...WHICH COULD BECOME DEADLY DURING HIGH WATER. FLOODING WILL OCCUR ALONG CREEKS...IN DRAINAGE AREAS...IN UNDERPASSES...OVER STREETS AND RURAL ROADS...IN NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND ARROYOS...AND OVER LOW LYING LAND ALONG CREEK BANKS. $$
000 WGUS75 KPUB 250257 FFSPUB COC099-250400- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 851 PM MDT FRI SEP 24 2004 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PROWERS COUNTY UNTIL 1000 PM MDT FRIDAY EVENING... HEAVY RAIN HAS CAUSED HIGH WATER LEVELS AND STRONG FLOW IN THE SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS IN PROWERS COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST RAIN FELL NORTH OF HIGHWAY 50 WITH ESTIMATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS 3 TO 4 INCHES. STREET FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN LAMAR THIS EVENING. THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE WEAKENED AND MOVED SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 50 BUT RUNOFF FROM EARLIER RAIN WILL CONTINUE. 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. $$
000 WGUS75 KPUB 250405 FFSPUB COC099-250430- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1000 PM MDT FRI SEP 24 2004 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR PROWERS COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DECREASE IN SIZE AND INTENSITY AS THEY MOVED TO THE SOUTH AND EAST. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OVER PROWERS COUNTY WILL BE LIGHT AND SHOULD NOT PRODUCE ADDITIONAL FLASH FLOODING. HOWEVER SOME AREAS WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE STANDING WATER ESPECIALLY IN AREAS WITH POOR DRAINAGE. SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS WILL HAVE HIGH WATER LEVELS AND STRONG FLOWS THROUGH THE REST OF TONIGHT. DO NOT DRIVE OR WALK INTO WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. AS LITTLE AS 6 INCHES OF WATER MAY CAUSE YOU TO LOSE CONTROL OF YOUR VEHICLE...AND 2 FEET OF RUSHING WATER CAN CARRY AWAY MOST VEHICLES...INCLUDING SUVS AND PICKUPS. NEARLY HALF OF ALL FLOOD FATALITIES ARE VEHICLE RELATED. KEEP CHILDREN AND OTHERS AWAY FROM FAST FLOWING WATER AND STORM DRAINS...WHICH COULD BECOME DEADLY DURING HIGH WATER. FLOODING WILL OCCUR ALONG CREEKS...IN DRAINAGE AREAS...IN UNDERPASSES...OVER STREETS AND RURAL ROADS...IN NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND ARROYOS...AND OVER LOW LYING LAND ALONG CREEK BANKS. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 24, 7:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 56 min |
| Sep 24, 8:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 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.