Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 20, 2005, 5:27 PM MDT for Teller County, Colorado. It was in force for 93 min. 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 20, 2005, 5:27 PM MDT (23:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2005, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 93 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Teller County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -480 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2764 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 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 202328 FFWPUB COC119-210100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 527 PM MDT MON JUN 20 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... THE HAYMAN BURN SCAN OF NORTHWESTERN TELLER COUNTY IN CENTRAL COLORADO. * UNTIL 700 PM MDT. * AT 526 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTH CENTRAL TELLER COUNTY... OR ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLORADO SPRINGS...MOVING WEST AT 5 MPH. * THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL BE OVER... THE HAYMAN BURN SCAR THROUGH 610 PM. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT RAIN TOTALS OF 1 TO 1.5 INCHES HAVE OCCURRED FROM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF WOODLAND PARK TO 10 MILES NORTH-NORTHWEST OF WOODLAND PARK AND ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF ONE-HALF TO ONE 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. 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 3902 10531 3907 10520 3912 10511 3912 10531 $$
3 follow-up statements
000 WGUS75 KPUB 202347 FFSPUB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 546 PM MDT MON JUN 20 2005 COC119-210100- TELLER CO- 546 PM MDT MON JUN 20 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 700 PM MDT FOR THE HAYMAN BURN SCAR IN NORTHWESTERN TELLER COUNTY... AT 543 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL TELLER COUNTY...OR ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLORADO SPRINGS. THE THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAIN WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT RAIN TOTALS OF BETWEEN 1.5 AND 2.5 INCHES HAS OCCURRED IN AN AREA FROM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF WOODLAND PARK TO 9 MILES NORTH-NORTHWEST OF WOODLAND PARK...AND ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF ONE-HALF TO ONE INCH IS POSSIBLE IN THAT AREA. JUST A SMALL AMOUNT OF RAINFALL ON A BURN SCAR CAN LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. WATER THAT IS NORMALLY ABSORBED BY VEGETATION...RUNS OFF ALMOST INSTANTLY. THIS CAUSES CREEKS AND DRAINAGE AREAS TO FLOOD AT A MUCH FASTER RATE THAN NORMAL. ADDITIONALLY...THE SOILS IN A BURN SCAR BECOME VERY UNSTABLE WHEN IT RAINS. ENTIRE HILLSIDES CAN BREAK AWAY...CREATING DEVASTATING ROCK SLIDES...MUDSLIDES...AND DEBRIS FLOWS. ROADWAYS ARE OFTEN DESTROYED BY THE POWERFUL FORCE OF THE RUSHING WATER AND DEBRIS...ESPECIALLY IF THEY PASS THROUGH A CREEK BED OR OTHER DRAINAGE AREA. LAT...LON 3902 10531 3907 10520 3912 10511 3912 10531 $$
000 WGUS75 KPUB 210015 FFSPUB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 610 PM MDT MON JUN 20 2005 COC119-210100- TELLER CO- 610 PM MDT MON JUN 20 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 700 PM MDT FOR THE HAYMAN BURN SCAR IN NORTHWESTERN TELLER COUNTY... AT 605 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHWESTERN TELLER COUNTY...OR ABOUT 29 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLORADO SPRINGS...MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING WILL REMAIN OVER RURAL AREAS OF NORTHWESTERN TELLER COUNTY THROUGH 645 PM MDT. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT RAIN TOTALS OF 1.5 TO 2.5 INCHES HAVE OCCURRED IN AN AREA STRETCHING FROM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF WOODLAND PARK TO 9 MILES NORTH-NORTHWEST OF WOODLAND PARK. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF ONE-QUARTER TO ONE-HALF INCH IS POSSIBLE IN THAT AREA. 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 3902 10531 3907 10520 3912 10511 3912 10531 $$
000 WGUS75 KPUB 210101 FFSPUB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 701 PM MDT MON JUN 20 2005 COC119-210111- TELLER CO- 701 PM MDT MON JUN 20 2005 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN TELLER COUNTY EXPIRED AT 700 PM MDT... HEAVY RAIN AND FLASH FLOODING ARE NO LONGER OCCURRING IN THIS AREA. LAT...LON 3902 10531 3907 10520 3912 10511 3912 10531 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 7:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 47 min |
| Jun 19, 8:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 51 min |
| Jun 20, 5:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Fremont | 73 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Colorado, 2005Every flash flood warning in 2005
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.