Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 2006
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 18, 2006, 4:21 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 114 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
- Jul 18, 2006, 4:21 PM MDT (22:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2006, 6:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 114 min
- 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), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 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 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2882 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 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 182226 FFWPUB COC041-190015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 421 PM MDT TUE JUL 18 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WESTERN EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... THIS INCLUDES THE AREAS ALONG AND WEST OF I-25... * UNTIL 615 PM MDT... * AT 415 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM A STORM NEAR MANITOU SPRINGS...OR ABOUT 7 MILES WEST OF COLORADO SPRINGS. THE STORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO... MANITOU SPRINGS...COLORADO SPRINGS. FOUNTAIN CREEK...RUXTON CREEK AND SUTHERLAND CREEK WILL RISE RAPIDLY. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT RAIN TOTALS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES HAVE OCCURRED SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 24 BETWEEN MANITOU SPRINGS AND PIKES PEAK. THIS IS IN AN AREA WITH NARROW CANYONS AND FLASHY STREAMS. 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 3880 10504 3880 10478 3897 10478 3901 10496 $$
3 follow-up statements
000 WGUS75 KPUB 182246 FFSPUB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 442 PM MDT TUE JUL 18 2006 COC041-190015- EL PASO CO- 442 PM MDT TUE JUL 18 2006 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM MDT FOR WEST CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY... AT 436 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN THAT COULD PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING OVER THE WARNED AREA. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO... SOUTHERLAND CREEK...RUXTON CREEK AND BEAR CREEK THAT WILL SEND HIGH WATER INTO FOUNTAIN CREEK THAT FLOWS INTO EXTREME WEST CENTRAL COLORADO SPRINGS. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT RAIN TOTALS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES HAVE OCCURRED SOUTH OF MANITOU SPRINGS. THIS SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORM WILL PRODUCE ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AT A RATE OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR. LAT...LON 3880 10504 3880 10478 3897 10478 3901 10496 $$
000 WGUS75 KPUB 182327 FFSPUB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 518 PM MDT TUE JUL 18 2006 COC041-190015- EL PASO CO- 518 PM MDT TUE JUL 18 2006 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM MDT FOR WEST CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY... AT 514 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN THAT COULD CREATE FLASH FLOODING OVER WEST CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY. THE AREA OF GREATEST CONCERN IS ALONG SOUTHERLAND CREEK. WATER FROM THIS CREEK FLOWS INTO FOUNTAIN CREEK AT HIGHWAY 24 ON THE EAST EDGE OF MANITOU SPRINGS. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO... MANITOU SPRINGS AND LOW AREAS ALONG THE FOUNTAIN CREEK BETWEEN MANITOU SPRINGS AND I-25. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT RAIN TOTALS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN MAY HAVE FALLEN OVER SOUTHERLAND CREEK AND RUXTON CREEK SOUTH OF MANITOU SPRINGS BETWEEN 300 PM AND 500 PM. LAT...LON 3880 10504 3880 10478 3897 10478 3901 10496 $$
000 WGUS75 KPUB 182357 FFSPUB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 554 PM MDT TUE JUL 18 2006 COC041-190004- EL PASO CO- 554 PM MDT TUE JUL 18 2006 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR WEST CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY... HEAVY RAIN HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA...AND WATER LEVELS HAVE GONE DOWN. THERE MAY CONTINUE TO BE SOME MINOR RISES IN FOUNTAIN CREEK AS THE RUNOFF FROM THE EARLIER RAIN WORKS ITS WAY DOWN STREAM. RIVER GAUGES ALONG FOUNTAIN CREEK AND AMATEUR RADIO SPOTTERS WHO WERE WATCHING RUXTON...SUTHERLANS AND FOUNTAIN CREEKS REPORT A BRIEF RISE IN WATER LEVELS BUT THE WATER LEVELS HAVE RETURNED TO NORMAL LEVELS. LAT...LON 3880 10504 3880 10478 3897 10478 3901 10496 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 6:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 88 min |
| Jul 17, 6:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 61 min |
| Jul 17, 7:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Fremont, Teller | 45 min |
| Jul 17, 7:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 59 min |
| Jul 17, 8:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 20 min |
| Jul 18, 12:58 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Chaffee | 2 hr |
| Jul 18, 3:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 58 min |
| Jul 18, 5:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Fremont | 17 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Colorado, 2006Every flash flood warning in 2006
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.