Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at May 29, 2007, 5:41 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 3 hr. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 2007, 5:41 PM MDT (23:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2007, 8:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pueblo County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:44 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 6:49 PM MDT | HEAVY RAIN 1 | 6 Sw Pueblo, CO | STREET FLOODING |
| May 29, 7:30 PM MDT | HEAVY RAIN 1.77 | 6 Sw Pueblo, CO | STORM TOTAL |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 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
- 18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -196 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1497 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS55 KPUB 292342 FFWPUB COC101-300245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 541 PM MDT TUE MAY 29 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRAL PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF PUEBLO... * UNTIL 845 PM MDT... * AT 539 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM A STORM OVER THE WARNED AREA. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO... PUEBLO. INTENSE RAINFALL ASSOCIATED WITH A DANGEROUS SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORM WAS OCCURRING OVER PUEBLO. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES HAS LIKELY OCCURRED WITH THIS STORM. 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. MAKE THE SMART CHOICE...TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN. LAT...LON 3811 10481 3811 10444 3840 10453 3843 10482 $$
3 follow-up statements
000 WGUS75 KPUB 292355 FFSPUB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 554 PM MDT TUE MAY 29 2007 COC101-300245- PUEBLO CO- 554 PM MDT TUE MAY 29 2007 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 845 PM MDT FOR CENTRAL PUEBLO COUNTY... AT 552 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A STORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING OVER THE WARNED AREA. RADAR INDICATES 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN MAY HAVE FALLEN WITH THIS STORM. THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAS FALLEN MAINLY WEST OF I-25. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO... PUEBLO. LAT...LON 3811 10481 3811 10444 3840 10453 3843 10482 $$
000 WGUS75 KPUB 300015 FFSPUB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 614 PM MDT TUE MAY 29 2007 COC101-300245- PUEBLO CO- 614 PM MDT TUE MAY 29 2007 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 845 PM MDT FOR CENTRAL PUEBLO COUNTY... AT 600 PM...REPORTS FROM THE PUBLIC INDICATED THAT NEARLY 1 INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN SOUTHWEST PUEBLO. RADAR ESTIMATES BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF THE CITY OF PUEBLO. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO... PUEBLO. LAT...LON 3811 10481 3811 10444 3840 10453 3829 10468 $$
000 WGUS75 KPUB 300036 FFSPUB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 634 PM MDT TUE MAY 29 2007 COC101-300044- PUEBLO CO- 634 PM MDT TUE MAY 29 2007 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR CENTRAL PUEBLO COUNTY... HEAVY RAIN HAS MOVED OUT OF THE PUEBLO AREA. THE PUEBLO POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED THAT NO SIGNIFICANT FLOODING HAS OCCURRED IN THE CITY OF PUEBLO. LAT...LON 3811 10481 3811 10444 3840 10453 3829 10468 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 3:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 46 min |
| May 29, 3:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 93 min |
| May 29, 5:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 55 min |
| May 29, 5:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 62 min |
| May 29, 5:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 66 min |
| May 29, 5:29 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 48 min |
| May 29, 5:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 55 min |
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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.