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Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 16, 20164 counties in Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 16, 2016, 5:09 PM MDT for 4 counties in 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: Aug 16, 2016, 5:09 PM MDT (23:09 UTC)
Expired: Aug 16, 2016, 8:00 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties El Paso County, CO, Fremont County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Teller County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 66 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 16, 5:58 PM MDT	HEAVY RAIN 1.75	9 Wsw Fountain, 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 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 198 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2033 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

607 
WGUS55 KPUB 162309
FFWPUB
COC041-043-101-119-170200-
/O.NEW.KPUB.FF.W.0024.160816T2309Z-160817T0200Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
509 PM MDT TUE AUG 16 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL FREMONT COUNTY IN CENTRAL COLORADO...
  SOUTHEASTERN TELLER COUNTY IN CENTRAL COLORADO...
  SOUTHWESTERN EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...
  NORTHWESTERN PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO...

* UNTIL 800 PM MDT

* AT 506 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 TO BEGIN SHORTLY.

* FLASH FLOODING WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EAST CENTRAL
  FREMONT...SOUTHEASTERN TELLER...SOUTHWESTERN EL PASO AND
  NORTHWESTERN PUEBLO COUNTIES.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS UP TO 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.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...FARMLAND...AND OTHER LOW LYING
SPOTS.

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 3875 10484 3862 10476 3852 10476 3852 10507
      3862 10506 3875 10497

$$

LW

3 follow-up statements

793 
WGUS75 KPUB 170004
FFSPUB

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
604 PM MDT TUE AUG 16 2016

COC041-043-101-119-170200-
/O.CON.KPUB.FF.W.0024.000000T0000Z-160817T0200Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
FREMONT CO-TELLER CO-EL PASO CO-PUEBLO CO-
604 PM MDT TUE AUG 16 2016

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT FOR
EAST CENTRAL FREMONT...SOUTHEASTERN TELLER...SOUTHWESTERN EL PASO AND
NORTHWESTERN PUEBLO COUNTIES...

AT 601 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 OCCURRING OVER PARTS
OF THE WARNING AREA.

FLASH FLOODING WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EAST CENTRAL
FREMONT...SOUTHEASTERN TELLER...SOUTHWESTERN EL PASO AND NORTHWESTERN
PUEBLO COUNTIES.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF 0.50 INCHES IS POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...FARMLAND...AND OTHER LOW LYING
SPOTS.

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 3875 10484 3862 10476 3852 10476 3852 10507
      3862 10506 3875 10497

$$

LW

760 
WGUS75 KPUB 170101
FFSPUB

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
701 PM MDT TUE AUG 16 2016

COC041-043-101-119-170200-
/O.CON.KPUB.FF.W.0024.000000T0000Z-160817T0200Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
FREMONT CO-TELLER CO-EL PASO CO-PUEBLO CO-
701 PM MDT TUE AUG 16 2016

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT FOR
EAST CENTRAL FREMONT...SOUTHEASTERN TELLER...SOUTHWESTERN EL PASO AND
NORTHWESTERN PUEBLO COUNTIES...

AT 659 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.  FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY
OCCURRING OVER PARTS OF THE WARNED AREA.

FLASH FLOODING WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EAST CENTRAL
FREMONT...SOUTHEASTERN TELLER...SOUTHWESTERN EL PASO AND NORTHWESTERN
PUEBLO COUNTIES.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...FARMLAND...AND OTHER LOW LYING
SPOTS.

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 3875 10484 3862 10476 3852 10476 3852 10507
      3862 10506 3875 10497

$$

LW

635 
WGUS75 KPUB 170157
FFSPUB

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
757 PM MDT TUE AUG 16 2016

COC041-043-101-119-170206-
/O.EXP.KPUB.FF.W.0024.000000T0000Z-160817T0200Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
FREMONT CO-TELLER CO-EL PASO CO-PUEBLO CO-
757 PM MDT TUE AUG 16 2016

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL FREMONT...SOUTHEASTERN
TELLER...SOUTHWESTERN EL PASO AND NORTHWESTERN PUEBLO COUNTIES WILL
EXPIRE AT 800 PM MDT...

FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE A THREAT. PLEASE CONTINUE TO
AVOID DRIVING INTO WATER OVER ROADWAYS.

LAT...LON 3875 10484 3862 10476 3852 10476 3852 10507
      3862 10506 3875 10497

$$

LW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 16, 3:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	50 min
Aug 16, 3:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	44 min
Aug 16, 3:54 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso	3 hr
Aug 16, 4:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	41 min
Aug 16, 4:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Fremont, Teller	45 min
Aug 16, 4:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	38 min
Aug 16, 4:23 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso	3 hr
Aug 16, 4:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	56 min
Aug 16, 4:54 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	El Paso	2 hr
Aug 16, 4:58 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso, Fremont, Pueblo, Teller	2 hr
Aug 16, 5:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Otero	60 min
Aug 16, 5:17 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso	3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Colorado, 2016 Every flash flood warning in 2016

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.