Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 2006
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2006, 11:01 PM MDT for Fremont County, Colorado. It was in force for 119 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 5, 2006, 11:01 PM MDT (05:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2006, 1:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 119 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Fremont County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 373 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1550 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS55 KPUB 060505 FFWPUB COC043-060700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1101 PM MDT WED JUL 5 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY IN CENTRAL COLORADO... * UNTIL 100 AM MDT... * AT 1058 PM MDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS CONTINUED TO REPORT FLASH FLOODING FROM THUNDERSTORMS EARLIER THIS EVENING OVER EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY. AT 1033 PM MDT...OFFICIALS REPORTED FLASH FLOODING CONTINUING OVER EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY. THE STATE PATROL REPORTS HIGHWAY 50 IS CLOSED AT MILE MARKER 288 NEAR PENROSE DUE TO HIGH WATER...THOUGH WATER WAS REPORTED TO BE SLOWLY RECEDING. STATE HIGHWAY ONE FIFTEEN IS REPORTED TO BE CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER NORTH OF PENROSE...AND WASHED OUT AND CLOSED BETWEEN FLORENCE AND PENROSE. BRIDGES OVER BEAVER CREEK ALONG COUNTY ROADS 132 AND 123 ARE REPORTED TO BE WASHED OUT. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT RAIN TOTALS OF OVER 4 INCHES HAVE OCCURRED OVER MUCH OF NORTHEAST FREMONT COUNTY...INCLUDING THE PENROSE AREA. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF UP TO ONE HALF INCH IS POSSIBLE THROUGH 1 AM IN THE AREA FROM CANON CITY EAST TO PENROSE AND FLORENCE. BEAVER CREEK AND EIGHT MILE CREEK WILL REMAIN OUT OF THEIR BANKS THROUGH 1 AM MDT...AND THE ARKANSAS RIVER WILL RISE TO NEAR BANKFULL FROM PORTLAND DOWNSTREAM TO PUEBLO RESERVOIR OVERNIGHT. 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 3826 10493 3864 10493 3864 10533 3842 10513 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS75 KPUB 060536 FFSPUB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1133 PM MDT WED JUL 5 2006 COC043-060700- FREMONT CO- 1133 PM MDT WED JUL 5 2006 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM MDT FOR EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY... AT 1132 PM MDT...OFFICIALS REPORTED FLASH FLOODING CONTINUING OVER EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY. STATE HIGHWAY ONE FIFTEEN IS CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER NORTH OF PENROSE...AND WASHED OUT AND CLOSED BETWEEN FLORENCE AND PENROSE. BRIDGES OVER BEAVER CREEK ALONG COUNTY ROADS 132 AND 123 ARE REPORTED TO BE WASHED OUT. THE STATE PATROL REPORTS HIGHWAY 50 IS NOW REOPENED TO ONE LANE OF TRAFFIC IN EACH DIRECTION THROUGH THE PENROSE AREA. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT RAIN TOTALS OF 4 TO 5 INCHES HAVE OCCURRED OVER MUCH OF NORTHEAST FREMONT COUNTY...INCLUDING THE PENROSE AREA. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF ONE QUARTER TO ONE HALF INCH IS POSSIBLE THROUGH 1 AM IN THE AREA FROM CANON CITY EAST TO PENROSE AND FLORENCE. BEAVER CREEK AND EIGHT MILE CREEK WILL REMAIN OUT OF THEIR BANKS THROUGH 1 AM MDT...AND THE ARKANSAS RIVER WILL RISE CONTINUE NEAR BANKFULL FROM PORTLAND DOWNSTREAM TO PUEBLO RESERVOIR OVERNIGHT. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. LAT...LON 3826 10493 3864 10493 3864 10533 3842 10513 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 8:55 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Fremont | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 5:19 AM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Chaffee, Costilla, Custer, El Paso, Fremont and 5 more | 17 hr |
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.