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Flash Flood Warning 25, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 2, 2007Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 2, 2007, 2:30 AM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It took effect at Aug 2, 2007, 2:36 AM MDT. It was in force for 84 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
Aug 2, 2007, 2:30 AM MDT (08:30 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 2, 2007, 2:36 AM MDT
Expired
Aug 2, 2007, 4:00 AM MDT
In force
84 min
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 08:31 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, 8.5 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2007-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 61 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2007-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -44 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
61 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2701 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-18 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 KPUB 020836
FFWPUB
COC101-021000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
230 AM MDT THU AUG 2 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WEST CENTRAL PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...

* UNTIL 400 AM MDT...

* AT 226 AM MDT...REPORTS FROM THE PUEBLO COUNTY SHERIFF INDICATE    
  THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING IN THE CITY OF BEULAH. THE              
  FOLLOWING ROADS ARE IMPASSABLE...HIGHWAY 78...PINE DRIVE...AND     
  SQUIRREL CREEK ROAD. RADAR AT 230 AM INDICATES THE HEAVY RAIN HAS  
  ENDED ACROSS ALL OF PUEBLO COUNTY...BUT THE FLASH FLOODING WILL    
  LIKELY CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR SO.

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


LAT...LON 3790 10504 3787 10500 3789 10467 3814 10467
      3824 10488 3820 10504

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 1, 7:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBPueblo58 min
Aug 1, 9:30 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBPueblo3 hr
Aug 1, 11:47 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBPueblo3 hr
Aug 2, 12:35 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBCuster3 hr
Aug 2, 2:30 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBPueblo90 min
Aug 2, 4:11 AM MDTFlash Flood WatchPUBAlamosa, Chaffee, Costilla, Custer, El Paso, Fremont and 5 more19 hr
Aug 2, 4:49 PM MDTRiver Flood WarningPUBPueblo4 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.