Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2007, 4:08 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 5, 2007, 4:08 PM MDT (22:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2007, 7:15 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 22:10 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 12:00Z, 10.1 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
- 3281 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 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 052210
FFWPUB
COC015-060115-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
408 PM MDT THU JUL 5 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
EASTERN CHAFFEE COUNTY IN CENTRAL COLORADO...
* UNTIL 715 PM MDT...
* AT 406 PM MDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED FLASH
FLOODING IN BUENA VISTA DUE TO HEAVY RAIN FROM SLOW MOVING STORMS
OVER THE WARNED AREA.
DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT RAIN TOTALS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES HAVE
OCCURRED AND ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS EXPECTED IN THAT AREA.
FLOOD WATERS ARE COLLECTING IN LOW LYING AREAS AND FLOOD PRONE
STREETS AND INTERSECTIONS.
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 3890 10601 3898 10620 3845 10622 3850 10596
3859 10592
$$4 follow-up statements
000
WGUS75 KPUB 052244
FFSPUB
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
438 PM MDT THU JUL 5 2007
COC015-060115-
CHAFFEE CO-
438 PM MDT THU JUL 5 2007
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM MDT FOR
EASTERN CHAFFEE COUNTY...
AT 431 PM MDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED FLOODING OF
LOW AREAS IN BUENA VISTA. HEAVY RAIN HAS INUNDATED STORM DRAINAGE
SYSTEMS AND HAS CAUSE WATER TO BACK UP INTO SOME APARTMENTS AND
HOMES. SOME PEOPLE HAVE REPORTED ONE TO TWO FEET OF WATER AND MUD IN
BASEMENTS.
LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO... BUENA
VISTA AND ALONG THE ARKANSAS RIVER BETWEEN BUENA VISTA AND SALIDA.
DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT RAIN TOTALS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES HAVE
OCCURRED IN THE BUENA VISTA AREA. RADAR SUGGESTS THAT THE HEAVIEST
RAIN HAS MOVED SOUTH AND MAY IMPACT SALIDA WITH HEAVY RAIN BETWEEN
500 PM A ND 600 PM.
FLOOD WATERS ARE COLLECTING IN LOW LYING AREAS AND FLOOD PRONE
STREETS AND INTERSECTIONS.
LAT...LON 3890 10601 3898 10620 3845 10622 3850 10596
3859 10592
$$000
WGUS75 KPUB 052303
FFSPUB
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
459 PM MDT THU JUL 5 2007
COC015-060115-
CHAFFEE CO-
459 PM MDT THU JUL 5 2007
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM MDT FOR
EASTERN CHAFFEE COUNTY...
AT 452 PM MDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED FLOODING IN
BUENA VISTA. REPORTS SUGGEST THAT THE FLOODING IS WEST OF HIGHWAY
24. SEVERAL SUBDIVISIONS AND APARTMENT COMPLEXES HAVE REPORTED
FLOODING WITH SOME REPORTS OF 1 TO 2 FEET OF WATER IN BASEMENTS.
LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO... BUENA
VISTA AND AREAS SOUTH OF BUENA VISTA ALONG HIGHWAY 24.
DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT RAIN TOTALS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES FELL OVER
THE WEST SIDE OF BUENA VISTA. RADAR INDICATES THAT THE HEAVY
RAINFALL HAS MOVED SOUTH BUT ADDITIONAL FLOODING IS POSSIBLE DUE TO
THE HEAVY RAIN THAT FELL EARLIER. SOME ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL OCCUR
THIS EVENING BUT AMOUNTS WILL BE FAR LESS THAN EARLIER.
FLOOD WATERS ARE COLLECTING IN LOW LYING AREAS AND FLOOD PRONE
STREETS AND INTERSECTIONS MAINLY WEST OF HIGHWAY 24.
LAT...LON 3890 10601 3898 10620 3845 10622 3850 10596
3859 10592
$$000
WGUS75 KPUB 060012
FFSPUB
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
607 PM MDT THU JUL 5 2007
COC015-060115-
CHAFFEE CO-
607 PM MDT THU JUL 5 2007
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM MDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN CHAFFEE COUNTY...
AT 559 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A STORM PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN OVER SOUTHERN CHAFFEE COUNTY
MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 50 BETWEEN SALIDA AND MONARCH
PASS. THIS AREA HAS STEEP TERRAIN WHERE EVEN BRIEF HEAVY RAIN CAN
LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING AND ROCK SLIDES.
RAINFALL HAS DECREASED OVER THE REST OF CHAFFEE COUNTY BUT FLOODING
MAY CONTINUE IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS AND SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS.
LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...
PONCHA SPRINGS.
LAT...LON 3861 10597 3857 10631 3846 10621 3845 10609
3852 10597
$$000
WGUS75 KPUB 060054
FFSPUB
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
645 PM MDT THU JUL 5 2007
COC015-060055-
CHAFFEE CO-
645 PM MDT THU JUL 5 2007
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR CHAFFEE COUNTY...
THUNDERSTORMS THAT PRODUCED HEAVY RAIN HAVE WEAKENED AND MOVED OUT
OF THE AREA. AT 645 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED LIGHT
RAIN FALLING OVER SOUTHERN CHAFFEE COUNTY MAINLY SOUTH OF HIGHWAY
50. WHILE THE RAINFALL HAS DECREASED OVER THE AREA THERE MAY STILL
BE HIGH WATER LEVELS AND FAST FLOWING WATER IN AREA CREEKS AND
STREAMS THAT SERVE AS TRIBUTARIES TO THE ARKANSAS RIVER. RAIN THAT
FALLS OVER NARROW CANYONS AND STEEP TERRAIN IN SOUTHERN CHAFFEE
COUNTY CAN QUICKLY CAUSE MUD FLOWS AND ROCK SLIDES.
LAT...LON 3861 10597 3857 10631 3846 10621 3845 10609
3852 10597
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 7:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano | 62 min |
| Jul 5, 4:27 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Saguache | 2 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.