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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 31, 2014El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at May 31, 2014, 2:38 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: May 31, 2014, 2:38 PM MDT (20:38 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 2014, 5:30 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), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:37 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 1220 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 113 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.

459 
WGUS55 KPUB 312038
FFWPUB
COC041-312330-
/O.NEW.KPUB.FF.W.0003.140531T2038Z-140531T2330Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
238 PM MDT SAT MAY 31 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 530 PM MDT
    
* AT 234 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING 
  HEAVY RAIN OVER EASTERN PARTS OF COLORADO SPRINGS...HEADING EAST 
  AND SOUTHEAST TOWARD SECURITY...SCHRIEVER AIR FORCE BASE...AND 
  ELLICOTT. A LITTLE OVER ONE INCH OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN. FLASH 
  FLOODING IS LIKELY IN SOME AREAS.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...COLORADO 
  SPRINGS...FOUNTAIN...FALCON...PETERSON AFB...STRATMOOR... 
  ELLICOTT...SCHRIEVER AFB...FORT CARSON...SECURITY-WIDEFIELD... 
  SECURITY...CIMARRON HILLS AND HANOVER.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3900 10431 3856 10452 3877 10486 3892 10479
      3902 10466

$$

LW

1 follow-up statement

651 
WGUS75 KPUB 312129
FFSPUB

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
329 PM MDT SAT MAY 31 2014

COC041-312138-
/O.CAN.KPUB.FF.W.0003.000000T0000Z-140531T2330Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
EL PASO CO-
329 PM MDT SAT MAY 31 2014

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

THE HEAVY RAIN HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA...AND FLOODING IS NO 
LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE A THREAT.

LAT...LON 3900 10431 3856 10452 3877 10486 3892 10479
      3902 10466

$$

LW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 6:09 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	36 min
May 31, 1:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	92 min
May 31, 1:52 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	83 min
May 31, 2:10 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	95 min
May 31, 2:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	89 min
May 31, 3:39 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	36 min
May 31, 3:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, El Paso, Pueblo	41 min
May 31, 4:27 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	33 min
May 31, 4:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	26 min
May 31, 5:20 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Elbert	25 min
May 31, 5:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	33 min
May 31, 5:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	32 min

Nearby

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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.