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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 11, 2015Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 11, 2015, 6:13 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 92 min. 1 report 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: Jun 11, 2015, 6:13 PM MDT (00:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2015, 7:45 PM MDT
In force: 92 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Pueblo County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:12 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
Jun 11, 7:10 PM MDT	HEAVY RAIN 0.83	3 Nne Pueblo, 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 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 210 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: 8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -127 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1096 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 273 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

547 
WGUS55 KPUB 120013
FFWPUB
COC101-120145-
/O.NEW.KPUB.FF.W.0016.150612T0013Z-150612T0145Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
613 PM MDT THU JUN 11 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO...

* UNTIL 745 PM MDT
    
* AT 612 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING
  HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO
  BEGIN SHORTLY.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  PUEBLO...SALT CREEK AND PUEBLO WEST. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

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

&&

LAT...LON 3837 10454 3823 10456 3823 10472 3837 10470

$$

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2 follow-up statements

457 
WGUS75 KPUB 120026
FFSPUB

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
626 PM MDT THU JUN 11 2015

COC101-120145-
/O.CON.KPUB.FF.W.0016.000000T0000Z-150612T0145Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
PUEBLO CO-
626 PM MDT THU JUN 11 2015

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM MDT FOR
NORTH CENTRAL PUEBLO COUNTY...

AT 625 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING 
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE CITY OF PUEBLO...WITH 
ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN HEADED TOWARD PUEBLO WEST. 
 
FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED.

SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
PUEBLO...SALT CREEK AND PUEBLO WEST. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

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

&&

LAT...LON 3837 10454 3823 10456 3823 10472 3837 10470

$$

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546 
WGUS75 KPUB 120138
FFSPUB

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
738 PM MDT THU JUN 11 2015

COC101-120148-
/O.EXP.KPUB.FF.W.0016.000000T0000Z-150612T0145Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
PUEBLO CO-
738 PM MDT THU JUN 11 2015

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL PUEBLO COUNTY WILL
EXPIRE AT 745 PM MDT...

THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED...AND FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE
A THREAT. PLEASE CONTINUE TO HEED ALL ROAD CLOSURES.

LAT...LON 3837 10454 3823 10456 3823 10472 3837 10470

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 6:00 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso	2 hr
Jun 11, 6:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Prowers	33 min
Jun 11, 6:19 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	41 min
Jun 11, 6:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	36 min
Jun 11, 6:35 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	40 min
Jun 11, 6:54 PM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	PUB	Baca, Bent, Las Animas, Prowers	3 hr
Jun 11, 6:58 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	El Paso, Teller	92 min
Jun 11, 7:04 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	El Paso	116 min
Jun 11, 7:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	23 min
Jun 11, 7:19 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	El Paso	116 min
Jun 11, 7:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	44 min
Jun 11, 7:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	29 min
Jun 11, 7:50 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Baca	25 min
Jun 11, 8:11 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Baca	34 min
Jun 11, 8:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	50 min
Jun 11, 8:43 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Baca	32 min
Jun 11, 8:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	46 min
Jun 11, 9:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	24 min
Jun 11, 9:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	33 min
Jun 11, 9:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	14 min
Jun 11, 10:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	46 min
Jun 11, 10:47 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Fremont	118 min
Jun 11, 11:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	45 min
Jun 12, 4:21 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Crowley	39 min
Jun 12, 4:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB		39 min
Jun 12, 5:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	52 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.