Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Pueblo, CO

Issued

Aug 4, 2013, 2:29 PM MDT (20:29 UTC)

Expired

Aug 4, 2013, 5:30 PM MDT

In force

3 hr

Issued by

NWS Pueblo, CO

Area

Storm-based polygon

Flood severity

None

County Las Animas County, CO

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 168 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 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.

983 
WGUS55 KPUB 042029
FFWPUB
COC071-042330-
/O.NEW.KPUB.FF.W.0013.130804T2029Z-130804T2330Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
229 PM MDT SUN AUG 4 2013

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 530 PM MDT

* AT 226 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE 
  WARNED AREA. PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED BETWEEN 1 TO 3 INCHES 
  HAS FALLEN ALONG THE COLORADO NEW MEXICO BORDER SOUTH OF SEGUNDO. 

* RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO
  OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  SEGUNDO.

THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING STREAMS AND DRAINAGES...
PURGATOIRE RIVER...LONG CANYON...BONITA CANYON...LORENCITO  
CANYON...MARTINEZ CANYON...SOUTH FORK PURGATOIRE RIVER...LITTLE 
ALMOSA CANYON AND SPRING CANYON.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO AN INCH IS POSSIBLE IN THE 
WARNED AREA.

&&

LAT...LON 3700 10497 3712 10483 3712 10463 3699 10462
      3699 10497

$$

364 
WGUS75 KPUB 042138
FFSPUB

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
338 PM MDT SUN AUG 4 2013

COC071-042330-
/O.CON.KPUB.FF.W.0013.000000T0000Z-130804T2330Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
LAS ANIMAS CO-
338 PM MDT SUN AUG 4 2013

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWESTERN LAS ANIMAS
COUNTY UNTIL 530 PM MDT...

AT 335 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL NEAR THE WARNED 
AREA...ESPECIALLY TO THE NORTHWEST AND TO THE SOUTH OF THE WARNED 
AREA.  PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT BETWEEN 1 TO 3.5 INCHES   
OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ALONG THE COLORADO NEW MEXICO BORDER SOUTH TO 
SOUTHWEST OF SEGUNDO.

RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO
OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
SEGUNDO.

THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING STREAMS AND DRAINAGES...PURGATOIRE 
RIVER...LONG CANYON...BONITA CANYON...LORENCITO CANYON...MARTINEZ 
CANYON...SOUTH FORK PURGATOIRE RIVER...LITTLE ALMOSA CANYON AND 
SPRING CANYON.

LAT...LON 3700 10497 3712 10483 3712 10463 3699 10462
      3699 10497

$$

808 
WGUS75 KPUB 042253
FFSPUB

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
453 PM MDT SUN AUG 4 2013

COC071-042307-
/O.CAN.KPUB.FF.W.0013.000000T0000Z-130804T2330Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
LAS ANIMAS CO-
453 PM MDT SUN AUG 4 2013

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWESTERN LAS
ANIMAS COUNTY 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 3700 10497 3712 10483 3712 10463 3699 10462
      3699 10497

$$

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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.