Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 19, 2007, 8:55 PM MDT for Fremont County, 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
- Jul 19, 2007, 8:55 PM MDT (02:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2007, 11:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fremont County, CO, Pueblo County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:55 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 9:30 PM MDT | HEAVY RAIN 1.94 | Pueblo, CO | 1.94 INCHES OF RAIN 1930-2130 LOCAL TIME. |
| Jul 19, 9:30 PM MDT | HEAVY RAIN 3.13 | Pueblo West, CO | 3.13 INCHES OF RAINFALL 1700-2130 LOCAL TIME. |
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 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 229 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
- 757 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1963 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 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 200256
FFWPUB
COC043-101-200545-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
855 PM MDT THU JUL 19 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS EXTENDED THE
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
FREMONT COUNTY IN CENTRAL COLORADO...
NORTHWESTERN PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...
* UNTIL 1145 PM MDT...
* AT 855 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
FLASH FLOODING FROM A STORM COMPLEX 13 MILES EAST OF FLORENCE...OR
ABOUT 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF PUEBLO...MOVING TO THE NORTHWEST AT 10
MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...
PENROSE.
FLORENCE.
ROCKVALE.
CANON CITY.
ROYAL GORGE.
DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT RAIN TOTALS OF 1 TO 4 INCHES HAVE
OCCURRED OVER EASTERN SECTIONS OF FREMONT COUNTY AND NORTHWEST
SECTIONS OF PUEBLO COUNTY SINCE 330 PM THIS AFTERNOON. ADDITIONAL
RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THIS AREA.
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 3827 10479 3851 10479 3850 10493 3865 10494
3864 10519 3864 10586 3841 10593 3826 10576
3827 10528
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 6:45 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Chaffee | 3 hr |
| 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, 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.