Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 2011
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 11, 2011, 1:10 PM MDT for Huerfano County, Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 83 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 11, 2011, 1:10 PM MDT (19:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 2011, 2:33 PM MDT
- In force
- 83 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:13 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 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 304 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2055 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
059 WGUS55 KPUB 111910 FFWPUB COC055-071-112200- /O.NEW.KPUB.FF.W.0002.110711T1910Z-110711T2200Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 110 PM MDT MON JUL 11 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN HUERFANO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... WEST CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... * UNTIL 400 PM MDT * AT 108 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE WARNING AREA. * RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... AREAS IN A AROUND AGUILAR...BONCARBO AND GULNARE. THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING STREAMS AND DRAINAGES... SOUTH SANTA CLARA CREEK...PURGATOIRE RIVER...SALADO CREEK...SANTA CLARA CREEK...APISHAPA RIVER...BERWIND ARROYO...MULLIGAN CANYON... REILLY CANYON...CHINAMANS CANYON...BURRO CANYON...TRUJILLO CREEK... WOLF CANYON...CHICOSA ARROYO...COLORADO CANYON...COTTONWOOD CANYON AND DEL AQUA ARROYO. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS LAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. && LAT...LON 3747 10452 3718 10460 3720 10478 3752 10476 $$
3 follow-up statements
976 WGUS75 KPUB 111932 FFSPUB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 132 PM MDT MON JUL 11 2011 COC055-071-112200- /O.CON.KPUB.FF.W.0002.000000T0000Z-110711T2200Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ HUERFANO CO-LAS ANIMAS CO- 132 PM MDT MON JUL 11 2011 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WEST CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS AND SOUTHEASTERN HUERFANO COUNTIES UNTIL 400 PM MDT... AT 130 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES OVER TWO INCHES OF RAINFALL IN AND AROUND THE AGUILAR AREA...AND SLIGHTLY LESSER AMOUNTS TO THE SOUTH NEAR BONCARBO. ANOTHER ONE INCH OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE IN THE SAME AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... AGUILAR...BONCARBO AND GULNARE. THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING STREAMS AND DRAINAGES...SOUTH SANTA CLARA CREEK...PURGATOIRE RIVER...SALADO CREEK...SANTA CLARA CREEK...APISHAPA RIVER...BERWIND ARROYO...MULLIGAN CANYON...REILLY CANYON...CHINAMANS CANYON...BURRO CANYON...TRUJILLO CREEK...WOLF CANYON...CHICOSA ARROYO...COLORADO CANYON...COTTONWOOD CANYON...DEL AQUA ARROYO AND WALSEN ARROYO. LAT...LON 3747 10452 3718 10460 3720 10478 3752 10476 $$
680 WGUS75 KPUB 112008 FFSPUB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 208 PM MDT MON JUL 11 2011 COC055-071-112200- /O.CON.KPUB.FF.W.0002.000000T0000Z-110711T2200Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ HUERFANO CO-LAS ANIMAS CO- 208 PM MDT MON JUL 11 2011 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WEST CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS AND SOUTHEASTERN HUERFANO COUNTIES UNTIL 400 PM MDT... AT 207 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE WEAKENED CONSIDERABLY ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THE PREVIOUS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE AREAS AROUND AGUILAR...BONCARBO AND GULNARE. THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING STREAMS AND DRAINAGES...SOUTH SANTA CLARA CREEK...PURGATOIRE RIVER...SALADO CREEK...SANTA CLARA CREEK...APISHAPA RIVER...BERWIND ARROYO...MULLIGAN CANYON...REILLY CANYON...CHINAMANS CANYON...BURRO CANYON...TRUJILLO CREEK...WOLF CANYON...CHICOSA ARROYO...COLORADO CANYON...COTTONWOOD CANYON...DEL AQUA ARROYO AND WALSEN ARROYO. LAT...LON 3747 10452 3718 10460 3720 10478 3752 10476 $$
057 WGUS75 KPUB 112033 FFSPUB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 233 PM MDT MON JUL 11 2011 COC055-071-112047- /O.CAN.KPUB.FF.W.0002.000000T0000Z-110711T2200Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ HUERFANO CO-LAS ANIMAS CO- 233 PM MDT MON JUL 11 2011 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR WEST CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS AND SOUTHEASTERN HUERFANO COUNTIES IS CANCELLED... EXCESS RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED OVER THE WARNED AREA. STREAMS AND CREEKS IN THE WARNED AREA HAVE RECEDED OR WERE BEGINNING TO RECEDE...ENDING THE FLOOD THREAT. IF FLOODING HAS BEEN OBSERVED... PLEASE REPORT IT TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. LAT...LON 3747 10452 3718 10460 3720 10478 3752 10476 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 1:55 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Pueblo | 59 min |
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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.