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Flash Flood Warning 55, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 29, 2014El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 29, 2014, 6:17 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 118 min. 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 29, 2014, 6:17 PM MDT (00:17 UTC)
Expired: Jul 29, 2014, 8:15 PM MDT
In force: 118 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County El Paso County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:21 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 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 176 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1146 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 62 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.

144 
WGUS55 KPUB 300017
FFWPUB
COC041-300215-
/O.NEW.KPUB.FF.W.0055.140730T0017Z-140730T0215Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
617 PM MDT TUE JUL 29 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 815 PM MDT
    
* AT 617 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING 
  HEAVY RAIN OVER THE WALDO CANYON BURN SCAR. FLASH FLOODING IS 
  EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY. THE CAMP CREEK AND DOUGLAS CREEK 
  DRAINAGES MAY BE IMPACTED.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  WESTERN COLORADO SPRINGS...AIR FORCE ACADEMY...MANITOU SPRINGS AND
  CASCADE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3898 10489 3896 10483 3893 10480 3886 10494
      3895 10500

$$

STARK

3 follow-up statements

884 
WGUS75 KPUB 300040
FFSPUB

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
640 PM MDT TUE JUL 29 2014

COC041-300215-
/O.CON.KPUB.FF.W.0055.000000T0000Z-140730T0215Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
EL PASO CO-
640 PM MDT TUE JUL 29 2014

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 815 PM MDT FOR
WEST CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY...

AT 636 PM MDT...GAUGE REPORTS INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN OVER THE WARNED AREA.  FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN
SHORTLY.

EXCESSIVE RAINFALL OVER THE BURN SCAR WILL RESULT IN DEBRIS FLOW 
MOVING THROUGH THE CAMP CREEK AND DOUGLAS CREEK DRAINAGES. THE 
DEBRIS FLOW CAN CONSIST OF ROCK...MUD...VEGETATION AND OTHER LOOSE 
MATERIALS. RAINFALL RATES OF AROUND AN INCH PER HOUR WERE OBSERVED 
OVER THE WALDO CANYON BURN SCAR.  

THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL HAS MOVED EAST OF THE BURN SCAR...BUT RUNOFF 
MAY TAKE SEVERAL MINUTES TO MOVE DOWN THE DRAINAGES.

SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... WESTERN 
COLORADO SPRINGS...AIR FORCE ACADEMY...AND THE NORTHEAST SIDE OF THE 
WALDO CANYON BURN SCAR. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

MOVE AWAY FROM RECENTLY BURNED AREAS. LIFE THREATENING FLOODING OF
CREEKS...ROADS AND NORMALLY DRY ARROYOS IS LIKELY. THE HEAVY RAINS
WILL LIKELY TRIGGER ROCKSLIDES...MUDSLIDES AND DEBRIS FLOWS IN STEEP
TERRAIN...ESPECIALLY IN AND AROUND THESE AREAS.

&&

LAT...LON 3898 10489 3896 10483 3893 10480 3886 10494
      3895 10500

$$

STARK

345 
WGUS75 KPUB 300125
FFSPUB

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
725 PM MDT TUE JUL 29 2014

COC041-300215-
/O.CON.KPUB.FF.W.0055.000000T0000Z-140730T0215Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
EL PASO CO-
725 PM MDT TUE JUL 29 2014

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 815 PM MDT FOR
WEST CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY...

AT 721 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS PRODUCING ADDITIONAL 
RAINFALL ACROSS THE WALDO CANYON BURN SCAR.  
 
HEAVY RAIN MOVED OVER THE BURN SCAR EARLIER AND RUNOFF FROM THIS 
RAINFALL MAY STILL BE MOVING DOWN THE CANYONS AND DRAINAGES. IN 
ADDITION...LIGHT RAINFALL IS EXPECTED THROUGH 8 PM. 

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO TENTHS OF AN INCH ARE 
POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

MOVE AWAY FROM RECENTLY BURNED AREAS. LIFE THREATENING FLOODING OF
CREEKS...ROADS AND NORMALLY DRY ARROYOS IS LIKELY. THE HEAVY RAINS
WILL LIKELY TRIGGER ROCKSLIDES...MUDSLIDES AND DEBRIS FLOWS IN STEEP
TERRAIN...ESPECIALLY IN AND AROUND THESE AREAS.

&&

LAT...LON 3898 10489 3896 10483 3893 10480 3886 10494
      3895 10500

$$

STARK

533 
WGUS75 KPUB 300141
FFSPUB

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
741 PM MDT TUE JUL 29 2014

COC041-300150-
/O.CAN.KPUB.FF.W.0055.000000T0000Z-140730T0215Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
EL PASO CO-
741 PM MDT TUE JUL 29 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 3898 10489 3896 10483 3893 10480 3886 10494
      3895 10500

$$

STARK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 29, 6:01 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso	119 min
Jul 29, 6:46 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso	3 hr
Jul 29, 7:35 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Kiowa	6 hr
Jul 29, 7:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	24 min
Jul 29, 8:03 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	27 min
Jul 29, 8:29 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Fremont	2 hr
Jul 29, 8:52 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	23 min
Jul 29, 9:15 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	2 hr
Jul 29, 9:30 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Baca, Bent, Las Animas, Prowers	5 hr
Jul 29, 10:02 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Las Animas	3 hr
Jul 29, 10:19 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Kiowa, Prowers	3 hr
Jul 29, 11:02 PM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa, Prowers	6 hr
Jul 29, 11:03 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Baca	3 hr
Jul 29, 11:51 PM MDT	Flash Flood Watch	PUB	Alamosa, Baca, Bent, Chaffee, Costilla, Crowley and 11 more	18 hr
Jul 30, 12:17 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Baca	3 hr
Jul 30, 12:18 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Bent, Prowers	3 hr
Jul 30, 12:41 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Prowers	3 hr
Jul 30, 12:48 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Baca, Las Animas, Prowers	3 hr
Jul 30, 2:36 AM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	PUB	Baca	5 hr
Jul 30, 3:06 AM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	PUB	Bent, Otero	3 hr
Jul 30, 2:33 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso	117 min
Jul 30, 2:48 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso	117 min
Jul 30, 3:38 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	22 min
Jul 30, 5:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	32 min
Jul 30, 5:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Alamosa	31 min
Jul 30, 5:57 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Saguache	2 hr

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.