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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 10, 2005Kiowa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 10, 2005, 11:44 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 3 hr. 1 report 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: Jul 10, 2005, 11:44 PM MDT (05:44 UTC)
Expired: Jul 11, 2005, 2:45 AM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Kiowa County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:46 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
Jul 11, 12:30 AM MDT	FLASH FLOOD	8 Se Sheridan Lake, CO	ONE TO 6 MILES SOUTH OF HWY 96 EAST OF SHERIDAN LAKE, ON RD 71. ONE FOOT OF WATER OVER ROAD, WITH SOME WASHOUTS ON SIDE ROADS.

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 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 50 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 4307 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS55 KPUB 110547
FFWPUB
COC061-110845-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1144 PM MDT SUN JUL 10 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO.

* UNTIL 245 AM MDT.

* AT 1143 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED VERY
  HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTH OF SHERIDAN LAKE...OR
  ABOUT 26 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAMAR...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

* THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL BE OVER...
  RURAL SOUTHEASTERN KIOWA COUNTY THROUGH MIDNIGHT MDT

DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT RAIN TOTALS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES HAVE 
OCCURRED IN SHERIDAN LAKE...AND AN AREA ROUGHLY 10 MILES TO THE 
WEST...SOUTH AND EAST OF SHERIDAN LAKE.  ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF 1 TO 
2 INCHES IS EXPECTED IN THAT AREA.

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 3854 10206 3854 10242 3827 10243 3826 10205

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS75 KPUB 110649
FFSPUB

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1249 AM MDT MON JUL 11 2005

COC061-110659-
KIOWA CO-
1249 AM MDT MON JUL 11 2005

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY HAS BEEN
CANCELED...

HEAVY RAIN AND FLASH FLOODING ARE NO LONGER OCCURRING IN THIS AREA.

LAT...LON 3854 10206 3854 10242 3827 10243 3826 10205

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 10, 10:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	73 min
Jul 10, 11:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	76 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.