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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 2, 2011, 4:50 PM MDT for El Paso County, Teller County, Colorado. It was in force for 3 hr. 5 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 2011, 4:50 PM MDT (22:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2011, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties El Paso County, CO, Teller County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:50 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 5:30 PM MDT | FLASH FLOOD | 8 Ne Colorado Springs, CO | STETSON HILLS BLVD AND TUTT BLVD FLOODED BETWEEN APPROXIMATELY 500 PM AND 530 PM MDT. |
| Aug 2, 6:02 PM MDT | FLASH FLOOD | 8 Ne Colorado Springs, CO | STETSON HILLS BLVD AND TUTT BLVD FLOODED BETWEEN APPROXIMATELY 500 PM AND 530 PM MDT. |
| Aug 2, 7:33 PM MDT | FLASH FLOOD | 2 Nw Colorado Springs, CO | WATER RESCUE AT 19TH AND HENDERSON ON WEST SIDE OF COLORADO SPRINGS. 2 FEET OF WATER OVER ROAD. SEVERAL VEHICLES STUCK. |
| Aug 2, 7:39 PM MDT | FLASH FLOOD | 5 Se Colorado Springs, CO | 2 INCHES WATER IN ROADWAY ON SOUTH ACADEMY BLVD BETWEEN HANCOCK AND ASTROZON BLVD. |
| Aug 2, 8:02 PM MDT | FLASH FLOOD | 5 Ne Colorado Springs, CO | WATER RESCUE AT ACADEMY AND AMERICAN. 2 KIDS SWEPT AWAY BY WATER WHILE PLAYING IN A DRAINAGE HAVE BEEN RESCUED BY FIRE DEPARTMENT AND CHECKED OUT BY MEDICAL. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 1845 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
755 WGUS55 KPUB 022250 FFWPUB COC041-119-030200- /O.NEW.KPUB.FF.W.0007.110802T2250Z-110803T0200Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 450 PM MDT TUE AUG 2 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... TELLER COUNTY IN CENTRAL COLORADO... WESTERN EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... * UNTIL 800 PM MDT * AT 446 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. * RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... COLORADO SPRINGS...AIR FORCE ACADEMY...BLACK FOREST...CASCADE... CHIPITA PARK...CRIPPLE CREEK...CRYSTOLA...DIVIDE...FALCON... FLORISSANT...FOUNTAIN...GREEN MOUNTAIN FALLS...MANITOU SPRINGS... MONUMENT...PALMER LAKE...PETERSON AFB...PIKES PEAK...SCHRIEVER AFB...SECURITY...VICTOR AND WOODLAND PARK. THIS INCLUDES...BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO...THE FOLLOWING STREAMS AND DRAINAGES...FOUNTAIN CREEK...BLACK SQUIRREL CREEK...MONUMENT CREEK...SAND CREEK...JIMMY CAMP CREEK...CHEYENNE CREEK...SHOOKS RUN...WEST MONUMENT CREEK...SOUTH RUXTON CREEK...NORTH MONUMENT CREEK. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY... COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING. DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF FLOOD WATERS. ONLY A FEW INCHES OF RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE. TURN AROUND... DONT DROWN! && LAT...LON 3912 10531 3912 10450 3859 10449 3871 10531 $$
3 follow-up statements
993 WGUS75 KPUB 022350 FFSPUB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 550 PM MDT TUE AUG 2 2011 COC041-119-030200- /O.CON.KPUB.FF.W.0007.000000T0000Z-110803T0200Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ TELLER CO-EL PASO CO- 550 PM MDT TUE AUG 2 2011 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN EL PASO AND TELLER COUNTIES UNTIL 800 PM MDT... AT 544 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...WITH NEW STORMS DEVELOPING. 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL IS EXPECTED. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... COLORADO SPRINGS...AIR FORCE ACADEMY...BLACK FOREST...CASCADE... CHIPITA PARK...CRIPPLE CREEK...CRYSTOLA...DIVIDE...FALCON... FLORISSANT...FOUNTAIN...GREEN MOUNTAIN FALLS...MANITOU SPRINGS... MONUMENT...PALMER LAKE...PETERSON AFB...PIKES PEAK...SCHRIEVER AFB... SECURITY...VICTOR AND WOODLAND PARK. THIS INCLUDES...BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO...THE FOLLOWING STREAMS AND DRAINAGES...FOUNTAIN CREEK...BLACK SQUIRREL CREEK...MONUMENT CREEK...SAND CREEK...JIMMY CAMP CREEK...CHEYENNE CREEK...SHOOKS RUN...WEST MONUMENT CREEK...SOUTH RUXTON CREEK...NORTH MONUMENT CREEK. AT 441 PM MDT...A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER 5 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF PETERSON AFB RECORDED 1.50 INCHES OF RAINFALL IN ABOUT 30 MINUTES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF FLOOD WATERS. ONLY A FEW INCHES OF RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE. && LAT...LON 3912 10531 3912 10450 3859 10449 3871 10531 $$
663 WGUS75 KPUB 030055 FFSPUB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 655 PM MDT TUE AUG 2 2011 COC041-119-030200- /O.CON.KPUB.FF.W.0007.000000T0000Z-110803T0200Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ TELLER CO-EL PASO CO- 655 PM MDT TUE AUG 2 2011 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN EL PASO AND TELLER COUNTIES UNTIL 800 PM MDT... AT 649 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...WITH MORE STORMS DEVELOPING. 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL IS EXPECTED. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... COLORADO SPRINGS...AIR FORCE ACADEMY...BLACK FOREST...CASCADE... CHIPITA PARK...CRIPPLE CREEK...CRYSTOLA...DIVIDE...FALCON... FLORISSANT...FOUNTAIN...GREEN MOUNTAIN FALLS...MANITOU SPRINGS... MONUMENT...PALMER LAKE...PETERSON AFB...PIKES PEAK...SCHRIEVER AFB... SECURITY...VICTOR AND WOODLAND PARK. THIS INCLUDES...BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO...THE FOLLOWING STREAMS AND DRAINAGES...FOUNTAIN CREEK...BLACK SQUIRREL CREEK...MONUMENT CREEK...SAND CREEK...JIMMY CAMP CREEK...CHEYENNE CREEK...SHOOKS RUN...WEST MONUMENT CREEK...SOUTH RUXTON CREEK...NORTH MONUMENT CREEK. STETSON HILLS BOULEVARD AND TUTT BOULEVARD IN NORTHEAST COLORADO SPRINGS FLOODED BETWEEN APPROXIMATELY 500 PM AND 530 PM MDT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF FLOOD WATERS. ONLY A FEW INCHES OF RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE. && LAT...LON 3912 10531 3912 10450 3859 10449 3871 10531 $$
137 WGUS75 KPUB 030211 FFSPUB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 811 PM MDT TUE AUG 2 2011 COC041-119-030217- /O.EXP.KPUB.FF.W.0007.000000T0000Z-110803T0200Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ TELLER CO-EL PASO CO- 811 PM MDT TUE AUG 2 2011 ...A NEW FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MOST OF EL PASO COUNTY UNTIL 11 PM MDT... ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN EL PASO AND TELLER COUNTIES UNTIL 8 PM MDT HAS EXPIRED... ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR TELLER COUNTY BUT A NEW FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF EL PASO COUNTY UNTIL 11 PM MDT... A NEW FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MOST OF EL PASO COUNTY UNTIL 11 PM MDT. PLEASE SEE THE LATEST FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR EL PASO COUNTY FOR DETAILS. OVER TELLER COUNTY...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. EXCESS RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED. STREAMS AND CREEKS IN THE WARNED AREA HAVE RECEDED OR WERE BEGINNING TO RECEDE...ENDING THE FLOOD THREAT. IF FLOODING HAS BEEN OBSERVED...PLEASE REPORT IT TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. LAT...LON 3912 10531 3912 10450 3859 10449 3871 10531 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 3:49 AM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla, Custer, El Paso and 9 more | 23 hr |
| Aug 2, 1:03 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Teller | 102 min |
| Aug 2, 3:10 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Huerfano, Las Animas | 2 hr |
| Aug 2, 3:37 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Teller | 82 min |
| Aug 2, 5:11 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Huerfano, Pueblo | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 5:18 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Las Animas, Otero, 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.