Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 2014

Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 25, 2014El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at May 25, 2014, 11:56 AM 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: May 25, 2014, 11:56 AM MDT (17:56 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2014, 3:00 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), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:57 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 (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 181 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1261 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 84 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.

259 
WGUS55 KPUB 251756
FFWPUB
COC041-252100-
/O.NEW.KPUB.FF.W.0002.140525T1756Z-140525T2100Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1156 AM MDT SUN MAY 25 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WEST CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...

* UNTIL 300 PM MDT
    
* AT 1153 AM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING 
  HEAVY RAIN OVER THE EXTREME WESTERN AND NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE 
  WALDO BURN SCAR. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.  
  RADAR ESTIMATES RAINFALL TOTALS MORE THAN 0,5 OVER THE EXTEREME 
  WESTERN AND NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE WALDO CANYON BURN SCAR. 

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  CASCADE...CASCADE-CHIPITA PARK AND CHIPITA PARK. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE.

&&

LAT...LON 3899 10496 3889 10496 3891 10500 3899 10500

$$

PGW

2 follow-up statements

563 
WGUS75 KPUB 251812
FFSPUB

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1212 PM MDT SUN MAY 25 2014

COC041-252100-
/O.CON.KPUB.FF.W.0002.000000T0000Z-140525T2100Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
EL PASO CO-
1212 PM MDT SUN MAY 25 2014

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM MDT FOR
WEST CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY...

AT 1209 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN HAS MOVED NORTHWEST OF THE WALDO CANYON BURN SCAR.

RADAR ESTIMATES AVERAGE RAINFALL TOTALS OF 0.5 TO 0.6 INCHES IN 20 
MINUTES OVER THE SAND GULCH DRAINAGE IN THE WESTERN PORTION OF THE 
WALDO CANYON BURN SCAR.

EXCESSIVE RAINFALL OVER THE BURN SCAR WILL RESULT IN DEBRIS FLOW 
MOVING THROUGH THE SAND GULCH DRAINAGE.  THE DEBRIS FLOW CAN CONSIST 
OF ROCK...MUD...VEGETATION AND OTHER LOOSE MATERIALS.

SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
CASCADE...CASCADE-CHIPITA PARK AND CHIPITA PARK. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.

&&

LAT...LON 3899 10496 3889 10496 3891 10500 3899 10500

$$

PGW

889 
WGUS75 KPUB 251851
FFSPUB

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1251 PM MDT SUN MAY 25 2014

COC041-251901-
/O.CAN.KPUB.FF.W.0002.000000T0000Z-140525T2100Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
EL PASO CO-
1251 PM MDT SUN MAY 25 2014

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED...AND FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE
A THREAT.

LAT...LON 3899 10496 3889 10496 3891 10500 3899 10500

$$

PGW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 6:26 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	34 min
May 24, 6:54 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	51 min
May 24, 6:55 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso	3 hr
May 24, 7:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	49 min
May 24, 7:39 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Fremont	3 hr
May 24, 9:37 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	23 min
May 24, 10:21 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	24 min
May 25, 11:27 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	18 min
May 25, 11:37 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	23 min
May 25, 12:22 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Douglas	23 min
May 25, 12:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Teller	41 min
May 25, 12:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	28 min
May 25, 2:06 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	24 min
May 25, 2:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Teller	49 min
May 25, 3:06 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso	3 hr
May 25, 3:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Chaffee	26 min
May 25, 5:37 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	53 min
May 25, 5:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Crowley	61 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.