Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 2015
Flash Flood Warning 43, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 14, 2015, 5:07 PM MDT for Teller County, Colorado. It was in force for 83 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 14, 2015, 5:07 PM MDT (23:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2015, 6:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 83 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Teller County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:08 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -216 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2122 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
628
WGUS55 KPUB 142307
FFWPUB
COC119-150030-
/O.NEW.KPUB.FF.W.0043.150814T2307Z-150815T0030Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
507 PM MDT FRI AUG 14 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTH CENTRAL TELLER COUNTY IN CENTRAL COLORADO...
* UNTIL 630 PM MDT
* AT 506 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO
BEGIN SHORTLY. RAIN GAUGES REPORTED AN INCH OF RAIN IN ABOUT 30
MINUTES WITH THIS STORM. RADAR ESTIMATES OVER AN INCH OF RAIN HAS
FALLEN IN THE LAST 35 MINUTES.
* FLASH FLOODING WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTH CENTRAL
TELLER COUNTY.
THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING STREAMS AND DRAINAGES...TROUT CREEK...
PHANTOM CREEK AND WEST CREEK.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE.
&&
LAT...LON 3913 10504 3900 10519 3913 10528
$$
HODANISH1 follow-up statement
085 WGUS75 KPUB 142335 FFSPUB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 535 PM MDT FRI AUG 14 2015 COC119-150030- /O.CON.KPUB.FF.W.0043.000000T0000Z-150815T0030Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ TELLER CO- 535 PM MDT FRI AUG 14 2015 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 PM MDT FOR NORTH CENTRAL TELLER COUNTY... AT 533 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. HEAVY RAIN FROM EARLIER IS LIKELY CAUSING FLASH FLOODING ACROSS FAR NORTH CENTRAL TELLER COUNTY. THE FOLLOWING STREAMS AND DRAINAGES ARE LIKELY FLOODING...TROUT CREEK... PHANTOM CREEK AND WEST CREEK. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE. && LAT...LON 3913 10504 3900 10519 3913 10528 $$ HODANISH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 6:00 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Baca | 3 hr |
| Aug 13, 8:28 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Kiowa | 47 min |
| Aug 13, 9:01 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Pueblo | 3 hr |
| Aug 13, 9:03 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Custer, Fremont, Pueblo | 3 hr |
| Aug 13, 9:12 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Las Animas | 3 hr |
| Aug 13, 9:40 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Pueblo | 3 hr |
| Aug 13, 11:41 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Las Animas | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 4:44 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Teller | 46 min |
| Aug 14, 4:58 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Teller | 2 hr |
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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.