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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 16, 2012, 12:54 PM MDT for El Paso 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 16, 2012, 12:54 PM MDT (18:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 2012, 4:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County El Paso County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -362 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2158 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
099 WGUS55 KPUB 161854 FFWPUB COC041-162200- /O.NEW.KPUB.FF.W.0005.120716T1854Z-120716T2200Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1254 PM MDT MON JUL 16 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EXTREME WEST CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... * UNTIL 400 PM MDT * AT 1249 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS MAINLY THE WILDCAT BASIN OF THE WALDO BURN SCAR. RADAR HAS INDICATED OVER AN INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THIS AREA...AND HEAVY RAIN WAS STILL OCCURRING AT 1249 PM. * THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL OVER THE BURN SCAR AREA WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. THE FLOODS WILL DRAIN INTO RAMPART RESERVOIR...NICHOLS RESERVOIR AND NORTHFIELD RESERVOIR. LAT...LON 3899 10494 3896 10497 3894 10500 3899 10501 $$
1 follow-up statement
466 WGUS75 KPUB 162024 FFSPUB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 224 PM MDT MON JUL 16 2012 COC041-162200- /O.CON.KPUB.FF.W.0005.000000T0000Z-120716T2200Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ EL PASO CO- 224 PM MDT MON JUL 16 2012 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME WEST CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY UNTIL 400 PM MDT...INCLUDING THE NORTH SIDE OF THE WALDO BURN SCAR AREA... AT 219 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED NO RAIN WAS FALLING OVER THE WALDO BURN SCAR. HOWEVER...HEAVY RAIN HAS OCCURRED ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE BURN SCAR AND THIS WATER IS STILL DRAINING OUT OF THE CREEKS AND INTO WEST MONUMENT CREEK. THERE IS A CHANCE THAT WEST MONUMENT CREEK MAY SUDDENLY RISE AS DEBRIS FLOWS INTO THE CREEK. AT THIS TIME...THE WORST FLOODING WOULD OCCUR GENERALLY FROM THE AIR FORCE ACADEMY WESTWARD TOWARDS RAMPART RESERVOIR. THERE IS STILL A CHANCE OF MORE RAIN OVER THE BURN SCAR LATER TODAY. PLEASE BE ALERT FOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. LAT...LON 3899 10494 3896 10497 3894 10500 3899 10501 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 12:03 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | El Paso | 3 hr |
| Jul 16, 1:20 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | El Paso | 2 hr |
| Jul 16, 1:41 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | El Paso | 3 hr |
| Jul 16, 3:24 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Fremont | 2 hr |
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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.