Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 2008
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 23, 2008, 6:17 PM MDT for Huerfano County, Colorado. It was in force for 106 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 23, 2008, 6:17 PM MDT (00:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 2008, 8:03 PM MDT
- In force
- 106 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Huerfano County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 286 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
- 1949 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 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 240017 FFWPUB COC055-240315- /O.NEW.KPUB.FF.W.0002.080724T0017Z-080724T0315Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 617 PM MDT WED JUL 23 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRAL HUERFANO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... * UNTIL 915 PM MDT... * AT 609 PM MDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED FLASH FLOODING FROM A STORM OVER THE WARNED AREA. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO FARISITA. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT RAIN TOTALS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES HAVE OCCURRED OVER OPEN COUNTRY SOUTH AND WEST OF HIGHWAY 69 JUST SOUTH AND EAST OF FARISTA...WITH LOCAL LAW ENFORECMENT INDICATING WATER FLOWING OVER THE ROADWAY ON HIGHWAY 69 NEAR MILE MARKER 17. 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. IF YOU DRIVE INTO WATER THAT IS TOO DEEP...BACK UP. IF YOU ENCOUNTER A ROAD BARRIER IN FRONT OF WATER ON THE ROAD...TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN. LAT...LON 3776 10509 3775 10494 3765 10493 3766 10512 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS75 KPUB 240203 FFSPUB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 803 PM MDT WED JUL 23 2008 COC055-240213- /O.CAN.KPUB.FF.W.0002.000000T0000Z-080724T0315Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ HUERFANO CO- 803 PM MDT WED JUL 23 2008 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR CENTRAL HUERFANO COUNTY... LAT...LON 3776 10509 3775 10494 3765 10493 3766 10512 $$
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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.