Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 2006
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2006, 3:45 PM MDT for Chaffee 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
- Jul 5, 2006, 3:45 PM MDT (21:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2006, 5:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Chaffee County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:46 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -356 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1940 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 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 052146
FFWPUB
COC015-052345-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
345 PM MDT WED JUL 5 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
EAST CENTRAL CHAFFEE COUNTY IN CENTRAL COLORADO...
* UNTIL 545 PM MDT...
* AT 340 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A STORM OVER THE WARNED AREA.
FLOOD WATERS ARE MOVING DOWN MUSHROOM GULCH INTO TROUT CREEK FROM 9
MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF BUENA VISTA TO 2 MILES SOUTH OF BUENA VISTA.
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 3879 10611 3882 10591 3884 10592 3888 10593
3887 10595 3887 10596 3890 10597 3882 10613
$$3 follow-up statements
000
WGUS75 KPUB 052220
FFSPUB
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
411 PM MDT WED JUL 5 2006
COC015-052345-
CHAFFEE CO-
411 PM MDT WED JUL 5 2006
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM MDT FOR EAST
CENTRAL CHAFFEE COUNTY...
AT 405 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE WARNED
AREA.
THIS THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAIN WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL
AREAS OF CHAFFEE COUNTY EAST OF BUENA VISTA.
DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT RAIN TOTALS OF UP TO 4 INCHES HAVE
OCCURRED OVER MUSHROOM GULCH ALONG TROUT CREEK...WHICH IS LOCATED
AROUND 10 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF BUENA VISTA. THE HEAVY RAINFALL
HAS SHIFTED SOUTH OF THIS AREA INTO CASTLE ROCK GULCH...WHICH ALSO
DRAINS INTO TROUT CREEK. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO 1 INCH
MAY FALL ACROSS THE CASTLE ROCK GULCH. FLASH FLOODING ALONG TROUT
CREEK IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE FROM 10 MILES EAST OF BUENA VISTA TO
ITS JUNCTION WITH THE ARKANSAS RIVER AROUND 2 MILES SOUTH OF BUENA
VISTA.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
LAT...LON 3879 10611 3882 10591 3884 10592 3888 10593
3887 10595 3887 10596 3890 10597 3882 10613
$$000
WGUS75 KPUB 052245
FFSPUB
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
440 PM MDT WED JUL 5 2006
COC015-052345-
CHAFFEE CO-
440 PM MDT WED JUL 5 2006
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM MDT FOR EAST
CENTRAL CHAFFEE COUNTY...
AT 439 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE WARNED
AREA.
DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT RAIN TOTALS OF UP TO 4 INCHES HAVE
OCCURRED ACROSS THE HEAD WATERS OF TROUT CREEK...INCLUDING MUSHROOM
GULCH AND CASTLE ROCK GULCH. HEAVY RAINFALL HAS SHIFTED EAST OF
THIS AREA...HOWEVER FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ALONG
TROUT CREEK TO ITS JUNCTION WITH THE ARKANSAS RIVER APPROXIMATELY 2
MILES SOUTH OF BUENA VISTA.
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 3879 10611 3882 10591 3884 10592 3888 10593
3887 10595 3887 10596 3890 10597 3882 10613
$$000
WGUS75 KPUB 052347
FFSPUB
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
547 PM MDT WED JUL 5 2006
COC015-052357-
CHAFFEE CO-
547 PM MDT WED JUL 5 2006
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR EAST CENTRAL CHAFFEE
COUNTY...
HEAVY RAINFALL HAS ENDED ACROSS THE AREA...AND FLASH FLOODING IS NO
LONGER ANTICIPATED.
LAT...LON 3879 10611 3882 10591 3884 10592 3888 10593
3887 10595 3887 10596 3890 10597 3882 10613
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 5:09 AM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Chaffee, Costilla, Custer, El Paso, Fremont and 5 more | 22 hr |
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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.