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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 19, 2015El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at May 19, 2015, 6:22 AM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 3 hr. 9 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 19, 2015, 6:22 AM MDT (12:22 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 2015, 9:15 AM 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), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:25 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 19, 6:30 AM MDT	HEAVY RAIN 1.14	5 Ne Air Force Academy, CO
May 19, 6:45 AM MDT	HEAVY RAIN 1.48	2 Nne Security, CO
May 19, 6:45 AM MDT	HEAVY RAIN 1.48	2 Nne Security, CO
May 19, 6:45 AM MDT	HEAVY RAIN 2	2 Ne Falcon, CO	0400 PM 5/18 TO 0645 AM 5/19. RAIN CHANGING TO SNOW.
May 19, 6:46 AM MDT	HEAVY RAIN 2.17	2 Wnw Colorado Springs, CO
May 19, 6:47 AM MDT	HEAVY RAIN 1.1	2 N Black Forest, CO
May 19, 6:50 AM MDT	HEAVY RAIN 1.29	3 Se Falcon, CO
May 19, 7:00 AM MDT	HEAVY RAIN 2.9	3 Wsw Colorado Springs, CO	SINCE 9 PM MDT 05/18/15.
May 19, 8:44 AM MDT	HEAVY RAIN 1.95	3 Ene Colorado Springs, CO

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 155 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: 854 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 186 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 206 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.

230 
WGUS55 KPUB 191222
FFWPUB
COC041-191515-
/O.NEW.KPUB.FF.W.0011.150519T1222Z-150519T1515Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
622 AM MDT TUE MAY 19 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 915 AM MDT

* AT 619 AM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN DEVELOPING OVER 
  A LARGE AREA OF EL PASO COUNTY. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN IN PUEBLO 
  COUNTY WILL ALSO MOVE INTO EL PASO COUNTY AFTER 730 AM. RAINFALL 
  AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES HAVE ALREADY FALLEN ACROSS EL PASO COUNTY 
  THIS MORNING. CREEKS AND STREAMS IN EL PASO COUNTY ARE ALREADY AT 
  BANKFULL...AND THIS ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL LIKELY CAUSE THEM TO GO 
  OVER BANKFULL.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  COLORADO SPRINGS...FOUNTAIN...MONUMENT...AIR FORCE ACADEMY...
  MANITOU SPRINGS...PALMER LAKE...CALHAN...RAMAH...PEYTON...FORT
  CARSON...MIDWAY...TRUCKTON...HANOVER...BLACK FOREST...SCHRIEVER
  AFB...SECURITY-WIDEFIELD...CIMARRON HILLS...FALCON...RUSH AND
  STRATMOOR.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3854 10405 3854 10492 3912 10493 3913 10460
      3913 10405

$$

HODANISH

3 follow-up statements

412 
WGUS75 KPUB 191253
FFSPUB

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
653 AM MDT TUE MAY 19 2015

COC041-191515-
/O.CON.KPUB.FF.W.0011.000000T0000Z-150519T1515Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
EL PASO CO-
653 AM MDT TUE MAY 19 2015

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 915 AM MDT FOR EL
PASO COUNTY...

AT 649 AM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN OVER 
PARTS OF EL PASO COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS LOCATED OVER EAST 
CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY. RAINFALL RATES OF 0.5 TO 0.75 INCHES AN HOUR 
WERE INDICATED BY RADAR WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN AREAS. THIS RAIN IS 
FALLING IN AREAS WHERE 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN. 
CREEKS AND STREAMS ACROSS EL PASO COUNTY ARE RUNNING AT OR NEAR 
BANKFULL AND FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY ACROSS THE REGION.

TURN AROUND...DO NOT DROWN. 

SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
COLORADO SPRINGS...FOUNTAIN...MONUMENT...AIR FORCE ACADEMY...MANITOU
SPRINGS...PALMER LAKE...CALHAN...RAMAH...PEYTON...FORT CARSON...
MIDWAY...TRUCKTON...HANOVER...BLACK FOREST...SCHRIEVER AFB...
SECURITY-WIDEFIELD...CIMARRON HILLS...FALCON...RUSH AND STRATMOOR.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3854 10405 3854 10492 3912 10493 3913 10460
      3913 10405

$$

HODANISH

234 
WGUS75 KPUB 191342
FFSPUB

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
742 AM MDT TUE MAY 19 2015

COC041-191515-
/O.CON.KPUB.FF.W.0011.000000T0000Z-150519T1515Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
EL PASO CO-
742 AM MDT TUE MAY 19 2015

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 915 AM MDT FOR EL
PASO COUNTY...

AT 736 AM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN STILL OCCURRING 
OVER EAST CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY. ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF EL PASO 
COUNTY...ONLY LIGHT RAIN SHOWERS WERE FALLING. 

WIDESPREAD 1 TO 3 INCH RAINFALL AMOUNTS OCCURRED EARLIER THIS 
MORNING ACROSS EL PASO COUNTY...AND MOST CREEKS AND STREAMS 
THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY ARE RUNNING AT OR JUST BELOW BANKFULL. THE 
FOUNTAIN CREEK WAS ABOVE FLOOD STAGE SOUTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS. 

SHOWERS...SOME LOCALLY HEAVY...WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS ALL OF EL 
PASO COUNTY THIS MORNING. IF YOU ENCOUNTER FLOODING...TURN 
AROUND...DONT DROWN. BE ESPECIALLY ALERT FOR FLOODING ACROSS EAST 
CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY AS IT WAS STILL RAINING HEAVY IN THIS AREA AS 
OF 736 AM. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3854 10405 3854 10492 3912 10492 3913 10460
      3913 10405

$$

HODANISH

342 
WGUS75 KPUB 191512
FFSPUB

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
912 AM MDT TUE MAY 19 2015

COC041-191521-
/O.EXP.KPUB.FF.W.0011.000000T0000Z-150519T1515Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
EL PASO CO-
912 AM MDT TUE MAY 19 2015

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR EL PASO COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 915 AM
MDT...

THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED...AND FLASH FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED 
TO POSE A THREAT. HOWEVER...A FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR 
FOUNTAIN CREEK NEAR FOUNTAIN UNTIL THIS EVENING. 

LAT...LON 3854 10405 3854 10492 3912 10492 3913 10460
      3913 10405

$$

ETP

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 18, 6:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Saguache	52 min
May 18, 10:17 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso	118 min
May 19, 12:48 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas	3 hr
May 19, 3:16 AM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	PUB	El Paso	3 hr
May 19, 4:57 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas	3 hr
May 19, 5:37 AM MDT	River Flood Warning	PUB	El Paso	17 hr
May 19, 6:00 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas, Pueblo	3 hr
May 19, 6:05 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Pueblo	3 hr
May 19, 8:44 AM MDT	River Flood Warning	PUB	Pueblo	54 hr
May 19, 8:44 AM MDT	River Flood Warning	PUB	Pueblo	33 hr
May 19, 8:44 AM MDT	River Flood Warning	PUB	Otero	13 days
May 19, 3:33 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	42 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.