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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

July 27, 2007Lincoln County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 27, 2007, 7:26 PM MDT for Lincoln County, Colorado. It was in force for 64 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 27, 2007, 7:26 PM MDT (01:26 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 2007, 8:30 PM MDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Lincoln County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:27 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 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 101 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2007-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 601 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2007-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
601 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1823 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS55 KBOU 280128
FFWBOU
COC073-280230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
726 PM MDT FRI JUL 27 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO

* UNTIL 830 PM MDT

* AT 726 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF           
  BOYERO...OR ABOUT 32 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LIMON. THIS STORM WAS      
  MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.  

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO BOYERO.

DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT 2 INCHES OF RAIN PER HOUR CONTINUE TO 
FALL. 

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY
AUTOMOBILE. TURN AROUND...DO NOT DROWN.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND
ARROYOS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.

DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF FLOOD WATERS. ONLY A FEW INCHES OF
RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE.

LAT...LON 3893 10347 3879 10339 3881 10319 3893 10320
      3904 10327

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 8:17 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningBOULincoln88 min
Jul 27, 8:53 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningBOULincoln82 min
Jul 28, 11:03 AM MDTFlash Flood WatchBOUAdams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and 10 more13 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Colorado, 2007Every flash flood warning in 2007

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.