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Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 9, 2015El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 9, 2015, 6:33 PM MDT for El Paso 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, 6:33 PM MDT (00:33 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 2015, 9:30 PM 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), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:37 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, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 178 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: 148 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2081 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

197 
WGUS55 KPUB 100033
FFWPUB
COC041-100330-
/O.NEW.KPUB.FF.W.0032.150710T0033Z-150710T0330Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
633 PM MDT THU JUL 9 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 930 PM MDT
    
* AT 632 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING 
  VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WALDO BURN SCAR AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS 
  EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.

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

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

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 10487 3881 10482 3889 10501 3901 10500

$$

HODANISH

2 follow-up statements

725 
WGUS75 KPUB 100125
FFSPUB

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
725 PM MDT THU JUL 9 2015

COC041-100330-
/O.CON.KPUB.FF.W.0032.000000T0000Z-150710T0330Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
EL PASO CO-
725 PM MDT THU JUL 9 2015

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 PM MDT FOR
WEST CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY...

AT 723 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING 
LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN SECTIONS OF THE WALDO 
BURN SCAR. THERE IS STILL SOME POTENTIAL FOR LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN OVER 
THE BURN SCAR THROUGH 8 PM. NO REPORTS OF SIGNIFICANT FLOODING HAVE 
BEEN REPORTED IN THE BURN SCAR 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 10487 3881 10482 3889 10501 3901 10500

$$

HODANISH

141 
WGUS75 KPUB 100221
FFSPUB

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
821 PM MDT THU JUL 9 2015

COC041-100229-
/O.CAN.KPUB.FF.W.0032.000000T0000Z-150710T0330Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
EL PASO CO-
821 PM MDT THU JUL 9 2015

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE WALDO BURN SCAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED. 
NO ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED IN THE SHORT TERM. PERIODS OF 
LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS 
ACROSS THE WALDO BURN SCAR. 

LAT...LON 3898 10487 3881 10482 3889 10501 3901 10500

$$

HODANISH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 9, 6:08 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	El Paso	3 hr
Jul 9, 6:21 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	39 min
Jul 9, 6:25 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso, Teller	2 hr
Jul 9, 6:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	33 min
Jul 9, 6:37 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	38 min
Jul 9, 6:49 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso, Fremont, Pueblo	3 hr
Jul 9, 6:49 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	El Paso	4 hr
Jul 9, 7:45 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	45 min
Jul 9, 7:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	27 min
Jul 9, 8:46 PM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	PUB	El Paso	3 hr
Jul 9, 9:37 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	38 min
Jul 9, 9:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	52 min
Jul 9, 10:20 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso	115 min
Jul 10, 3:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	48 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.