Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 26, 2005, 4:24 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
- Jul 26, 2005, 4:24 PM MDT (22:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 2005, 7:30 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), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:25 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 250 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
- 82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 540 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS55 KPUB 262226 FFWPUB COC027-101-270130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 424 PM MDT TUE JUL 26 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 730 PM MDT. * AT 420 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM NEAR BEULAH...OR ABOUT 27 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PUEBLO...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. * THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL BE OVER... THE MASON GULCH BURN SCAR THROUGH 5 PM. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT RAIN TOTALS OF ONE QUARTER TO ONE HALF OF AN INCH HAS FALLEN OVER THE BURN SCAR. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN OF 0NE HALF TO ONE INCH IS POSSIBLE. 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 10500 3819 10521 3789 10501 3796 10483 $$
3 follow-up statements
000 WGUS75 KPUB 262247 FFSPUB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 444 PM MDT TUE JUL 26 2005 COC027-101-270130- CUSTER CO-PUEBLO CO- 444 PM MDT TUE JUL 26 2005 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WEST CENTRAL PUEBLO AND EAST CENTRAL CUSTER COUNTIES UNTIL 730 PM MDT... AT 442 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO ONE HALF OF AN INCH HAS FALLEN ON THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE MASON GULCH BURN SCAR. THE NORTHERN PART OF THE BURN SCAR HAS SEEN LESS THAN ONE TENTH OF AN INCH OF RAIN. RADAR SHOWS AN ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM TO THE NORTH OF THE BURN SCAR WHICH IS MOVING SOUTH...BUT THIS STORM WAS WEAKENING BETWEEN 437 AND 442 PM. JUST A SMALL AMOUNT OF RAINFALL ON A BURN SCAR CAN LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. WATER THAT IS NORMALLY ABSORBED BY VEGETATION...RUNS OFF ALMOST INSTANTLY. THIS CAUSES CREEKS AND DRAINAGE AREAS TO FLOOD AT A MUCH FASTER RATE THAN NORMAL. ADDITIONALLY...THE SOILS IN A BURN SCAR BECOME VERY UNSTABLE WHEN IT RAINS...SOMETIMES CREATING ROCK SLIDES AND MUDFLOWS. ROADWAYS CAN BE WASHED OUT BY THE FORCE OF THE RUSHING WATER. LAT...LON 3823 10500 3819 10521 3789 10501 3796 10483 $$ HODANISH
000 WGUS75 KPUB 262300 FFSPUB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 456 PM MDT TUE JUL 26 2005 COC027-101-270130- CUSTER CO-PUEBLO CO- 500 PM MDT TUE JUL 26 2005 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WEST CENTRAL PUEBLO AND EAST CENTRAL CUSTER COUNTIES UNTIL 730 PM MDT... AT 451 PM MDT...NO RAIN WAS FALLING OVER THE MASON BURN SCAR AREA. NO RAINFALL IS EXPECTED OVER THE BURN SCAR AREA DURING THE REST OF THE EVENING. RADAR INDICATED UP TO ONE HALF OF AN INCH HAS FALLEN OVER THE BURN SCAR AREA BETWEEN 4 AND 430 PM. IF FLOODING IS OCCURRING IN THE BURN SCAR AREA...IT WILL OCCUR OVER THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF THE BURN SCAR. IF NO NEW RAINFALL REDEVELOPS OVER THE BURN SCAR...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL BE CANCELED BEFORE 730 PM. 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 3823 10500 3819 10521 3789 10501 3796 10483 $$ HODANISH
000 WGUS75 KPUB 262335 FFSPUB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 533 PM MDT TUE JUL 26 2005 COC027-101-262343- CUSTER CO-PUEBLO CO- 533 PM MDT TUE JUL 26 2005 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL PUEBLO AND EAST CENTRAL CUSTER COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELED... HEAVY RAIN AND FLASH FLOODING ARE NO LONGER OCCURRING IN THIS AREA. LAT...LON 3823 10500 3819 10521 3789 10501 3796 10483 $$ HODANISH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 3:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 54 min |
| Jul 26, 4:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 25 min |
| Jul 26, 5:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Fremont | 45 min |
| Jul 26, 5:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano, Las Animas | 60 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.