Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 2016
Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 1, 2016, 9:02 PM MDT for Baca County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 3 hr. 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
- Jul 1, 2016, 9:02 PM MDT (03:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2016, 12:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Baca County, CO, Prowers County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 201 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:06 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 9:17 PM MDT | HEAVY RAIN 1.6 | Walsh, CO |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1068 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted.
033 WGUS55 KPUB 020302 FFWPUB COC009-099-020600- /O.NEW.KPUB.FF.W.0010.160702T0302Z-160702T0600Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 902 PM MDT FRI JUL 1 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO... EASTERN BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO... * UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT * AT 900 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO ONE INCH OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... WALSH...VILAS...TWO BUTTES AND STONINGTON. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...FARMLAND...AND OTHER LOW LYING SPOTS. && LAT...LON 3785 10205 3701 10206 3701 10250 3783 10250 $$ LW
2 follow-up statements
979 WGUS75 KPUB 020344 FFSPUB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 944 PM MDT FRI JUL 1 2016 COC009-099-020600- /O.CON.KPUB.FF.W.0010.000000T0000Z-160702T0600Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ PROWERS CO-BACA CO- 944 PM MDT FRI JUL 1 2016 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN PROWERS AND EASTERN BACA COUNTIES... AT 942 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY OCCURING AND EXPECTED TO CONTINUE. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... WALSH...VILAS...TWO BUTTES AND STONINGTON. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS UP TO AN INCH ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...FARMLAND...AND OTHER LOW LYING SPOTS. && LAT...LON 3785 10205 3701 10206 3701 10250 3783 10250 $$ LW
037 WGUS75 KPUB 020552 FFSPUB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1152 PM MDT FRI JUL 1 2016 COC009-099-020600- /O.EXP.KPUB.FF.W.0010.000000T0000Z-160702T0600Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ PROWERS CO-BACA CO- 1152 PM MDT FRI JUL 1 2016 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN PROWERS AND EASTERN BACA COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT MIDNIGHT MDT... THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED. FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE A THREAT. PLEASE CONTINUE TO HEED ANY REMAINING ROAD CLOSURES. DO NOT TRAVEL THROUGH WATER OVER THE ROAD. IT MAY BE TOO DEEP TO CROSS SAFELY. LAT...LON 3785 10205 3701 10206 3701 10250 3783 10250 $$ LW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 6:06 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Prowers | 24 min |
| Jul 1, 6:18 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Baca, Bent, Prowers | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 6:39 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Baca | 51 min |
| Jul 1, 8:07 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Prowers | 38 min |
| Jul 1, 8:22 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Baca | 24 min |
| Jul 1, 8:26 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Baca | 21 min |
| Jul 1, 8:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Prowers | 26 min |
| Jul 2, 2:22 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Baca | 38 min |
| Jul 2, 2:49 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Prowers | 41 min |
| Jul 2, 2:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 50 min |
| Jul 2, 3:25 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Prowers | 35 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.