Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 2, 2007, 11:22 PM MDT for Chaffee County, Colorado. It took effect at Aug 2, 2007, 11:31 PM MDT. 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
- Aug 2, 2007, 11:22 PM MDT (05:22 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 2, 2007, 11:31 PM MDT
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2007, 1:45 AM MDT
- In force
- 2 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 05:22 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, 5.4 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
- 2800 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 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 030531 FFWPUB COC015-030745- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1122 PM MDT THU AUG 2 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS EXTENDED THE * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRAL CHAFFEE COUNTY IN CENTRAL COLORADO... * UNTIL 145 AM MDT... * AT 1118 PM MDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED FLASH FLOODING FROM A STORM THAT PRODUCED HEAVY RAIN IN THE WARNED AREA. * FLASH FLOODING WILL CONTINUE OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY. FLOOD WATERS ARE MOVING DOWN BROWNS CREEK...LITTLE BROWNS CREEK...THREEMILE CREEK AND FOURMILE CREEK. RAINFALL HAS DECREASED OVER THE AREA...BUT WITH ALL THE RAIN THAT FELL THIS EVENING...WATER LEVELS WILL REMAIN HIGH WITH FLOODING OCCURRING THROUGH 145 AM. 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 3859 10626 3859 10609 3879 10612 3876 10623 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS75 KPUB 030737 FFSPUB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 137 AM MDT FRI AUG 3 2007 COC015-030753- CHAFFEE CO- 137 AM MDT FRI AUG 3 2007 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 145 AM MDT FOR CENTRAL CHAFFEE COUNTY... HEAVY RAIN HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA...AND WATER LEVELS HAVE GONE DOWN. PLEASE USE EXTREME CAUTION IF TRAVELING THROUGH CENTRAL CHAFFEE COUNTY. IF YOU SHOULD ENCOUNTER WATER CROSSING THE ROAD...PLEASE DO NOT CROSS IT AS THE ROAD MAY BE WASHED OUT. REMEMBER...TURN AROUND DO NOT DROWN. BE ALERT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF DEBRIS ON ROADWAYS AND POSSIBLE MUD SLIDES. LAT...LON 3859 10626 3859 10609 3879 10612 3876 10623 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 8:38 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Chaffee | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 4:27 AM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla, Custer, El Paso and 9 more | 17 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.