Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 19, 2007, 3:38 PM MDT for Custer 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 19, 2007, 3:38 PM MDT (21:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2007, 5:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Custer County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:40 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 269 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
- 507 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -349 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1258 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 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 192142 FFWPUB COC027-192345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 338 PM MDT THU JUL 19 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN CUSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... * UNTIL 545 PM MDT... * AT 330 PM MDT...SPOTTERS REPORTED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A STORM OVER EXTREME NORTHWESTERN CUSTER COUNTY...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTH OF WESTCLIFFE THAT WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. SPOTTERS REPORTED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF NEARLY AN INCH IN LESS THAN ONE HOUR WITH WATER RUNNING FAST IN DITCHES ALONG THE ROADS. * THE STORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL REMAIN OVER NORTHERN CUSTER COUNTY. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT RAIN TOTALS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES MAY HAVE OCCURRED IN THE AREA. SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS WILL RISE RAPIDLY AND MUD FLOWS ARE POSSIBLE IN THE STEEP TERRAIN. 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 3810 10564 3815 10550 3824 10559 3824 10575 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS75 KPUB 192336 FFSPUB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 536 PM MDT THU JUL 19 2007 COC027-192346- CUSTER CO- 536 PM MDT THU JUL 19 2007 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 545 PM MDT FOR NORTHWESTERN CUSTER COUNTY... LAT...LON 3810 10564 3815 10550 3824 10559 3824 10575 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 10:44 AM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Chaffee, Costilla, Custer, El Paso, Fremont and 5 more | 12 hr |
| Jul 19, 1:53 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Teller | 2 hr |
| Jul 19, 4:47 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Fremont, Pueblo | 4 hr |
| Jul 19, 5:17 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Huerfano | 3 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.