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Flash Flood Warning 75, NWS Pueblo, CO

September 11, 2014Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Sep 11, 2014, 6:45 PM MDT for Las Animas 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: Sep 11, 2014, 6:45 PM MDT (00:45 UTC)
Expired: Sep 11, 2014, 9:45 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Las Animas County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:47 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 306 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: 51 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2716 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 80 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.

325 
WGUS55 KPUB 120045
FFWPUB
COC071-120345-
/O.NEW.KPUB.FF.W.0075.140912T0045Z-140912T0345Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
645 PM MDT THU SEP 11 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 945 PM MDT
    
* AT 640 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING 
  HEAVY RAIN IN THE FRIJOLE CREEK AND SAN FRANSISCO CREEK DRAINAGES 
  OF THE PURGATOIRE RIVER IN SOUTHWESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY. UP TO 
  THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAVE ALREADY FALLEN WITH UP TO ANOTHER INCH 
  OF RAIN POSSIBLE. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.

* FLASH FLOODING WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHWESTERN
  LAS ANIMAS COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

PLEASE REPORT FLOODING TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY WHEN YOU
CAN DO SO SAFELY.

&&

LAT...LON 3715 10430 3711 10426 3704 10431 3704 10443
      3715 10442

$$

MW

3 follow-up statements

429 
WGUS75 KPUB 120141
FFSPUB

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
741 PM MDT THU SEP 11 2014

COC071-120345-
/O.CON.KPUB.FF.W.0075.000000T0000Z-140912T0345Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
LAS ANIMAS CO-
741 PM MDT THU SEP 11 2014

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 945 PM MDT FOR
SOUTHWESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY...

AT 736 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING 
HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING TO MOVE ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. DOPPLER RADAR 
IS INDICATING 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN MAY HAVE ALREADY FALLEN ACROSS 
THE FRIJOLE CREEK AND SAN FRANSISCO CREEK DRAINAGE BASINS OF THE 
PURGATOIRE RIVER...IN SOUTHWESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY. 

FLASH FLOODING WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHWESTERN
LAS ANIMAS COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.

PLEASE REPORT FLOODING TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY WHEN YOU
CAN DO SO SAFELY.

&&

LAT...LON 3715 10430 3711 10426 3704 10431 3704 10443
      3715 10442

$$

MW

637 
WGUS75 KPUB 120239
FFSPUB

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
839 PM MDT THU SEP 11 2014

COC071-120345-
/O.CON.KPUB.FF.W.0075.000000T0000Z-140912T0345Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
LAS ANIMAS CO-
839 PM MDT THU SEP 11 2014

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 945 PM MDT FOR
SOUTHWESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY...

AT 835 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING 
HEAVY RAIN HAVE MOVED AWAY FROM THE WARNED AREA. HOWEVER...PUEBLO 
DOPPLER RADAR IS INDICATING 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS 
FRIJOLE CREEK AND SAN FRANSISCO CREEK DRAINAGES OF THE PURGATOIRE 
RIVER IN SOUTHWESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY OVER THE 2 HOURS. 

FLASH FLOODING WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHWESTERN 
LAS ANIMAS COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.

PLEASE REPORT FLOODING TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY WHEN YOU
CAN DO SO SAFELY.

&&

LAT...LON 3715 10430 3711 10426 3704 10431 3704 10443
      3715 10442

$$

MW

558 
WGUS75 KPUB 120338
FFSPUB

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
938 PM MDT THU SEP 11 2014

COC071-120347-
/O.EXP.KPUB.FF.W.0075.000000T0000Z-140912T0345Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
LAS ANIMAS CO-
938 PM MDT THU SEP 11 2014

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY WILL
EXPIRE AT 945 PM MDT...

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

LAT...LON 3715 10430 3711 10426 3704 10431 3704 10443
      3715 10442

$$

MW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 11, 6:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	32 min
Sep 11, 7:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	22 min
Sep 11, 7:10 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	35 min
Sep 11, 7:23 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Las Animas	3 hr
Sep 11, 7:33 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	27 min
Sep 11, 8:10 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	35 min
Sep 12, 2:49 PM MDT	Frost Advisory	PUB	Crowley, El Paso, Pueblo	17 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.