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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 21, 2005El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 21, 2005, 4:15 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 3 hr. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 21, 2005, 4:15 PM MDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 2005, 7:15 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County El Paso County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:17 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 21, 4:25 PM MDT	FLASH FLOOD	Ne Colorado Springs, CO	CAR STRANDED NEAR AUSTIN BLUFFS AND N CIRCLE DR WITH ESTIMATED 18 INCHES OF WATER ON THE ROADWAY
Jun 21, 4:35 PM MDT	FLASH FLOOD	Colorado Springs, CO	FLOODING REPORTED IN STORES AT THE CITADEL MALL

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 168 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2837 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 147 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS55 KPUB 212217
FFWPUB
COC041-220115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
415 PM MDT TUE JUN 21 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO.
  THIS INCLUDES COLORADO SPRINGS.

* UNTIL 715 PM MDT.

* AT 408 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED 
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING OVER COLORADO 
SPRINGS...MOVING SOUTH AT 35 MPH.

FLOOD WATERS ARE COLLECTING IN LOW LYING AREAS AND FLOOD PRONE 
STREETS AND INTERSECTIONS. HIGH WATER WAS REPORTED OVER MOST OF 
COLORADO SPRINGS ESPECIALLY THE AREA ALONG AND WEST OF ACADEMY 
BOULEVARD AND SOUTH OF AUSTIN BLUFFS.

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 3903 10452 3903 10493 3859 10491 3860 10451

$$

3 follow-up statements

000 
WGUS75 KPUB 212250
FFSPUB

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
444 PM MDT TUE JUN 21 2005

COC041-220115-
EL PASO CO-
444 PM MDT TUE JUN 21 2005

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 715 PM MDT FOR CENTRAL EL
PASO. COUNTY...

AT 434 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
SHOW THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN OVER THE COLORADO SPRINGS 
AREA.  STORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR FOUNTAIN...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTH 
OF COLORADO SPRINGS AND IN THE FALCON AND PETERSON AFB AREAS ON THE 
NORTHEAST SIDE OF COLORADO SPRINGS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTH AT  
5 MPH.

HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE OVER THE WIDEFIELD...SECURITY...FOUNTAIN 
AND FORT CARSON AREAS AS WELL AS AREAS EAST OF ACADEMY AND NORTH OF 
HIGHWAY 24. 

WHILE THE RAINFALL HAS SUBSIDED IN SOME PORTIONS OF COLORADO SPRINGS 
THERE IS STILL A LOT OF STANDING WATER IN LOW AREAS. CREEKS AND 
DRAINAGE DITCHES CONTINUE TO RUN HIGH AND FAST.

LAT...LON 3903 10452 3903 10493 3859 10491 3860 10451

$$

000 
WGUS75 KPUB 212338
FFSPUB

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
533 PM MDT TUE JUN 21 2005

COC041-220115-
EL PASO CO-
533 PM MDT TUE JUN 21 2005

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 715 PM MDT FOR CENTRAL EL
PASO. COUNTY...

AT 527 PM MDT...THE RAINFALL GAUGES AROUND COLORADO SPRINGS REPORTED 
1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN FELL BETWEEN 300 PM AND 500 PM. THE HEAVIEST 
RAIN WAS ALONG AND WEST OF ACADEMY BOULEVARD BETWEEN AUSTIN BLUFFS 
AND DRENNAN ROAD. RAIN CONTINUES OVER THE COLORADO SPRINGS AREA BUT 
NOT AT THE HEAVY FALL RATES OF EARLIER. SMALL STREAMS AND DRAINAGE 
DITCHES CONTINUE TO RUN HIGH AND FAST AND SHOULD BE AVOIDED. POOR 
DRAINAGE AREAS WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE DEEP STANDING WATER. 





LAT...LON 3903 10452 3903 10493 3859 10491 3860 10451

$$

000 
WGUS75 KPUB 220023
FFSPUB

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
620 PM MDT TUE JUN 21 2005

COC041-220030-
EL PASO CO-
620 PM MDT TUE JUN 21 2005

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY HAS BEEN
CANCELED...

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THIS EVENING BUT HEAVY RAIN 
AND FLASH FLOODING ARE NO LONGER OCCURRING IN THIS AREA. SOME AREAS 
OF COLORADO SPRINGS WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE STANDING WATER ESPECIALLY 
AREAS WITH POOR DRAINAGE. SMALL CREEKS...STREAMS AND DRAINAGE 
DITCHES WILL CONTINUE TO RUN HIGH AND FAST AS THE RAIN FROM EARLIER 
WORKS ITS WAY DOWNSTREAM. THOSE AREAS SHOULD BE AVOIDED UNTIL THEY 
RETURN TO MORE NORMAL LEVELS. 

LAT...LON 3903 10452 3903 10493 3859 10491 3860 10451

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 21, 1:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Teller	64 min
Jun 21, 2:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	69 min
Jun 21, 4:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Fremont	51 min
Jun 21, 4:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	48 min
Jun 21, 5:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Otero	46 min

Nearby

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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.