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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 26, 2009Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 26, 2009, 3:12 PM MDT for Las Animas 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 26, 2009, 3:12 PM MDT (21:12 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 2009, 6:15 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Las Animas County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 274 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 35 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -260 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 975 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS55 KPUB 262112
FFWPUB
COC071-270015-
/O.NEW.KPUB.FF.W.0007.090726T2112Z-090727T0015Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
312 PM MDT SUN JUL 26 2009

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...

* UNTIL 615 PM MDT

* AT 310 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA.

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

DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT RAIN TOTALS OF UP TO 2.5 INCHES HAVE 
OCCURRED AROUND 3 MILES WEST OF KIM...AND ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF UP 
TO 2 INCHES IS EXPECTED IN THAT AREA THROUGH 500 PM.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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 3700 10391 3733 10394 3735 10324 3700 10320

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WGUS75 KPUB 262148
FFSPUB

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
348 PM MDT SUN JUL 26 2009

COC071-270015-
/O.CON.KPUB.FF.W.0007.000000T0000Z-090727T0015Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
LAS ANIMAS CO-
348 PM MDT SUN JUL 26 2009

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM MDT FOR
CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY...

AT 343 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING OVER THE WARNED
AREA.

LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO KIM

DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT RAIN TOTALS OF BETWEEN 2 AND 3 INCHES 
OCCURRED ALONG AND SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 160 WEST OF KIM. ADDITIONAL 
RAINFALL OF 1 TO 2 INCHES CAN BE EXPECTED IN THAT AREA...AS STRONG 
THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO SLOWLY MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS OPEN COUNTRY 
OF EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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 3700 10391 3733 10394 3735 10324 3700 10320

$$

000 
WGUS75 KPUB 270015
FFSPUB

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
615 PM MDT SUN JUL 26 2009

COC071-270025-
/O.EXP.KPUB.FF.W.0007.000000T0000Z-090727T0015Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
LAS ANIMAS CO-
615 PM MDT SUN JUL 26 2009

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS
COUNTY...

LAT...LON 3700 10391 3733 10394 3735 10324 3700 10320

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 25, 6:09 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Fremont	2 hr
Jul 25, 7:50 PM MDT	River Flood Warning	PUB	Las Animas	3 hr
Jul 25, 7:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	114 min
Jul 25, 8:11 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	3 hr
Jul 25, 8:36 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	6 hr
Jul 25, 9:56 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Bent, Otero, Prowers	3 hr
Jul 26, 10:39 AM MDT	Flash Flood Watch	PUB	Alamosa, Chaffee, Costilla, Custer, El Paso, Fremont and 5 more	10 hr
Jul 26, 2:27 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas	2 hr
Jul 26, 2:34 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso	2 hr
Jul 26, 2:54 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	El Paso	96 min
Jul 26, 3:04 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Fremont, Teller	106 min
Jul 26, 3:38 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Custer, Fremont, Saguache	3 hr
Jul 26, 4:26 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Fremont	3 hr
Jul 26, 4:46 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Custer, Huerfano, Pueblo	3 hr
Jul 26, 4:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas, Otero, Pueblo	2 hr
Jul 26, 5:18 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas	3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Colorado, 2009 Every flash flood warning in 2009

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.