Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 22, 2005, 2:45 PM MDT for Custer County, Pueblo 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 22, 2005, 2:45 PM MDT (20:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2005, 5:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Custer County, CO, Pueblo County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:45 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 243 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
- 1701 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 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 222048 FFWPUB COC027-101-222345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 245 PM MDT MON AUG 22 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL CUSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO. WEST CENTRAL PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO. * UNTIL 545 PM MDT. * AT 241 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME WEST CENTRAL PUEBLO COUNTY...OR ABOUT 23 MILES WEST OF PUEBLO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS WARNING IS FOR THE MASON GULCH BURN SCAR. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT RAIN TOTALS OF UP FOUR TENTHS OF AN INCH HAVE OCCURRED OVER THE MASON GULCH BURN SCAR AND ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF ONE HALF OF AN INCH TO 1 INCH IS EXPECTED IN THAT AREA. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. 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...AND THIS CAN RESULT IN FALLING ROCKS OR MUD FLOWS. ROADWAYS CAN BE WASHED OUT BY THE FORCE OF THE RUSHING WATER. LAT...LON 3824 10502 3818 10514 3808 10502 3818 10494 $$
3 follow-up statements
000 WGUS75 KPUB 222103 FFSPUB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 301 PM MDT MON AUG 22 2005 COC027-101-222345- CUSTER CO-PUEBLO CO- 301 PM MDT MON AUG 22 2005 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WEST CENTRAL PUEBLO AND NORTHEASTERN CUSTER COUNTIES UNTIL 545 PM MDT... AT 258 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER EXTREME WEST CENTRAL PUEBLO COUNTY...OR ABOUT 22 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PUEBLO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS WARNING IS FOR THE MASON GULCH BURN SCAR. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT RAIN TOTALS UP TO 1.75 INCHES HAVE OCCURRED OVER THE EASTERN PARTS OF THE MASON GULCH BURN SCAR...AND ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF A HALF AN INCH TO 1 INCH IS EXPECTED IN THAT AREA. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. JUST A SMALL AMOUNT OF RAINFALL ON A BURN SCAR CAN LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. WATER THAT IS NORMALLY ABSORBED BY VEGETATION...RUNS OFF ALMOST INSTANTLY. THIS CAUSES CREEKS AND DRAINAGE AREAS TO FLOOD AT A MUCH FASTER RATE THAN NORMAL. ADDITIONALLY...THE SOILS IN A BURN SCAR BECOME VERY UNSTABLE WHEN IT RAINS...SOMETIMES CREATING ROCK SLIDES AND MUDFLOWS. ROADWAYS CAN BE WASHED OUT BY THE FORCE OF THE RUSHING WATER. LAT...LON 3824 10502 3818 10514 3808 10502 3818 10494 $$
000 WGUS75 KPUB 222128 FFSPUB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 325 PM MDT MON AUG 22 2005 COC027-101-222345- CUSTER CO-PUEBLO CO- 325 PM MDT MON AUG 22 2005 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WEST CENTRAL PUEBLO AND NORTHEASTERN CUSTER COUNTIES UNTIL 545 PM MDT... AT 320 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER WEST CENTRAL PUEBLO COUNTY...OR ABOUT 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PUEBLO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT RAIN TOTALS OF 1 TO 1.75 INCHES HAVE OCCURRED OVER THE NORTHERN TWO THIRDS OF THE MASON GULCH BURN SCAR. THE THUNDERSTORM...WHICH PRODUCED THE HEAVY RAIN....HAS MOVED EAST OF THE REGION. HOWEVER...RAPID RUNOFF FROM THE EARLIER HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE...WITH FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND SMALL DRAINAGES LIKELY. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. 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...SOMETIMES CREATING ROCK SLIDES AND MUDFLOWS. ROADWAYS CAN BE WASHED OUT BY THE FORCE OF THE RUSHING WATER. LAT...LON 3824 10502 3818 10514 3808 10502 3818 10494 $$
000 WGUS75 KPUB 222215 FFSPUB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 415 PM MDT MON AUG 22 2005 COC027-101-222225- CUSTER CO-PUEBLO CO- 415 PM MDT MON AUG 22 2005 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL PUEBLO AND NORTHEASTERN CUSTER COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELED... HEAVY RAIN AND FLASH FLOODING ARE NO LONGER OCCURRING IN THIS AREA. LAT...LON 3824 10502 3818 10514 3808 10502 3818 10494 $$
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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.