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Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 9, 2015, 5:41 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
- Jul 9, 2015, 5:41 PM MDT (23:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2015, 8:45 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), 165 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:44 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 314 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 852 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
586
WGUS55 KPUB 092341
FFWPUB
COC071-100245-
/O.NEW.KPUB.FF.W.0030.150709T2341Z-150710T0245Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
541 PM MDT THU JUL 9 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO...
* UNTIL 845 PM MDT
* AT 541 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAVE
ALREADY FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED.
* FLASH FLOODING WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEASTERN
LAS ANIMAS COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE.
REMAIN ALERT FOR FLOODING EVEN IN LOCATIONS NOT RECEIVING RAIN.
ARROYOS...STREAMS AND RIVERS CAN BECOME RAGING KILLER CURRENTS IN A
MATTER OF MINUTES...EVEN FROM DISTANT RAINFALL.
&&
LAT...LON 3708 10381 3713 10324 3700 10313 3700 10380
$$
KT2 follow-up statements
042 WGUS75 KPUB 100026 FFSPUB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 626 PM MDT THU JUL 9 2015 COC071-100245- /O.CON.KPUB.FF.W.0030.000000T0000Z-150710T0245Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ LAS ANIMAS CO- 626 PM MDT THU JUL 9 2015 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 845 PM MDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY... AT 626 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAVE ALREADY FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE. FLASH FLOODING WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE. REMAIN ALERT FOR FLOODING EVEN IN LOCATIONS NOT RECEIVING RAIN. ARROYOS...STREAMS AND RIVERS CAN BECOME RAGING KILLER CURRENTS IN A MATTER OF MINUTES...EVEN FROM DISTANT RAINFALL. && LAT...LON 3708 10381 3713 10324 3700 10313 3700 10380 $$ KT
334 WGUS75 KPUB 100221 RRA FFSPUB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 821 PM MDT THU JUL 9 2015 COC071-100231- /O.CAN.KPUB.FF.W.0030.000000T0000Z-150710T0245Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ LAS ANIMAS CO- 821 PM MDT THU JUL 9 2015 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED...AND FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE A THREAT. LAT...LON 3708 10381 3713 10324 3700 10313 3700 10380 $$ KT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 6:39 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 51 min |
| Jul 8, 8:43 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Prowers | 47 min |
| Jul 8, 9:41 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Baca | 49 min |
| Jul 9, 2:44 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 46 min |
| Jul 9, 2:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 13 min |
| Jul 9, 3:17 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent | 43 min |
| Jul 9, 3:26 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Huerfano | 2 hr |
| Jul 9, 3:37 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Huerfano | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 3:58 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 47 min |
| Jul 9, 4:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 48 min |
| Jul 9, 4:37 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Teller | 38 min |
| Jul 9, 4:54 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Pueblo | 51 min |
| Jul 9, 5:02 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Teller | 43 min |
| Jul 9, 5:11 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Pueblo | 49 min |
| Jul 9, 5:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 46 min |
| Jul 9, 5:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 41 min |
| Jul 9, 5:25 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Las Animas | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 5:45 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Pueblo | 45 min |
| Jul 9, 5:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso, Pueblo | 50 min |
| Jul 9, 5:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 13 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.