Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 3, 2005, 3:58 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 2 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 3, 2005, 3:58 PM MDT (21:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2005, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 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), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -278 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2364 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 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 032159
FFWPUB
COC041-040000-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
358 PM MDT WED AUG 3 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO.
THIS INCLUDES EXTREME NORTHWESTERN COLORADO SPRINGS.
* UNTIL 600 PM MDT.
* AT 355 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED VERY
HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM NEAR MONUMENT...OR ABOUT 13 MILES
NORTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS. THE STORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS
NEARLY STATIONARY.
* THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL BE OVER...
MONUMENT BY 420 PM MDT.
PALMER LAKE BY 700 PM MDT.
DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT RAIN TOTALS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES HAS FALLEN
BETWEEN 320 PM AND 350 PM. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS NOTED JUST SOUTH OF
MONUMENT.
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 3895 10489 3902 10468 3912 10474 3912 10495
3906 10496
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS75 KPUB 032233
FFSPUB
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
433 PM MDT WED AUG 3 2005
COC041-032243-
EL PASO CO-
433 PM MDT WED AUG 3 2005
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN EL PASO COUNTY HAS BEEN
CANCELED...
HEAVY RAIN AND FLASH FLOODING ARE NO LONGER OCCURRING IN
NORTHWESTERN EL PASO COUNTY.
LAT...LON 3895 10489 3902 10468 3912 10474 3912 10495
3906 10496
$$
METZEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 4:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 22 min |
| Aug 3, 4:52 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Fremont, Teller | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 5:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Fremont | 38 min |
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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.