Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 19, 2007, 6:45 PM MDT for Chaffee County, Colorado. It was in force for 3 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, 6:45 PM MDT (00:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2007, 9:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chaffee County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 178 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:44 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4818 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 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 200047
FFWPUB
COC015-200345-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
645 PM MDT THU JUL 19 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN CHAFFEE COUNTY IN CENTRAL COLORADO...
* UNTIL 945 PM MDT...
* AT 640 PM MDT...THE CHAFFEE COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED FLOODING ON
COUNTY ROAD 111 JUST EAST OF SALIDA. WATER WAS ALSO REPORTED ON
THE ROADWAY 6 MILES EAST ON HIGHWAY 291.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...
SALIDA.
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 3844 10609 3847 10604 3846 10602 3850 10595
3856 10590 3862 10589 3863 10636 3857 10633
3852 10633 3848 10624 3844 10622
$$3 follow-up statements
000
WGUS75 KPUB 200118
FFSPUB
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
714 PM MDT THU JUL 19 2007
COC015-200345-
CHAFFEE CO-
714 PM MDT THU JUL 19 2007
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 945 PM MDT FOR
SOUTHERN CHAFFEE COUNTY...
AT 705 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THAT THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAS ENDED ACROSS SOUTHERN CHAFFEE COUNTY.
HOWEVER...FLOODING IS LIKELY STILL OCCURRING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN
PART OF THE COUNTY.
LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...
SALIDA.
LAT...LON 3844 10609 3847 10604 3846 10602 3850 10595
3856 10590 3862 10589 3863 10636 3857 10633
3852 10633 3848 10624 3844 10622
$$000
WGUS75 KPUB 200149
FFSPUB
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
748 PM MDT THU JUL 19 2007
COC015-200345-
CHAFFEE CO-
748 PM MDT THU JUL 19 2007
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 945 PM MDT FOR
SOUTHERN CHAFFEE COUNTY...
AT 742 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED LIGHT RAIN WAS OCCURRING ACROSS
SOUTHERN CHAFFEE COUNTY. ALTHOUGH THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED...PONDING
OF WATER IS STILL LIKELY OCCURRING ACROSS SOUTHERN CHAFFEE COUNTY.
PLEASE USE EXTREME CAUTION IF YOU ARE DRIVING THIS EVENING ACROSS
SOUTHERN CHAFFEE COUNTY.
LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...
SALIDA.
LAT...LON 3844 10609 3847 10604 3846 10602 3850 10595
3856 10590 3862 10589 3863 10636 3857 10633
3852 10633 3848 10624 3844 10622
$$000
WGUS75 KPUB 200249
FFSPUB
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
849 PM MDT THU JUL 19 2007
COC015-200259-
CHAFFEE CO-
849 PM MDT THU JUL 19 2007
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR SOUTHERN CHAFFEE
COUNTY...
HEAVY RAIN HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA...AND WATER LEVELS HAVE GONE
DOWN. LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WILL CONTINUE INTO THE LATE EVENING
HOURS.
LAT...LON 3844 10609 3847 10604 3846 10602 3850 10595
3856 10590 3862 10589 3863 10636 3857 10633
3852 10633 3848 10624 3844 10622
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 6:57 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 7:10 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 5 hr |
| Jul 19, 8:07 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Huerfano | 113 min |
| Jul 19, 8:55 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Fremont, Pueblo | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 9:07 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | El Paso, Teller | 3 hr |
| Jul 20, 10:15 AM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla, Custer, El Paso and 9 more | 11 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.