Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 2016
Flash Flood Warning 25, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 16, 2016, 6:25 PM MDT for Fremont County, Pueblo 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
- Aug 16, 2016, 6:25 PM MDT (00:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2016, 9:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Fremont County, CO, Pueblo County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:29 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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 349 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2902 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted.
049
WGUS55 KPUB 170025
FFWPUB
COC043-101-170330-
/O.NEW.KPUB.FF.W.0025.160817T0025Z-160817T0330Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
625 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...
NORTHWESTERN PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO...
* UNTIL 930 PM MDT
* AT 625 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO
BEGIN SHORTLY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
PUEBLO...PINON...BLENDE...SALT CREEK...PENROSE...
PUEBLO RESERVOIR AND PUEBLO WEST.
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...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND
UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND 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 3851 10461 3823 10439 3824 10474 3833 10507
3851 10507
$$
LW2 follow-up statements
126 WGUS75 KPUB 170132 FFSPUB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 732 PM MDT TUE AUG 16 2016 COC043-170134- /O.CAN.KPUB.FF.W.0025.000000T0000Z-160817T0330Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ FREMONT CO- 732 PM MDT TUE AUG 16 2016 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL FREMONT COUNTY IS CANCELLED... FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE A THREAT IN THIS AREA. PLEASE CONTINUE TO AVOID DRIVING INTO WATER COVERED ROADWAYS. LAT...LON 3851 10470 3851 10461 3823 10439 3824 10468 $$ COC101-170330- /O.CON.KPUB.FF.W.0025.000000T0000Z-160817T0330Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ PUEBLO CO- 732 PM MDT TUE AUG 16 2016 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 PM MDT FOR NORTH CENTRAL PUEBLO COUNTY... AT 724 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING REMAINS POSSIBLE. SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... PUEBLO AND BLENDE. 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...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND 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 3851 10470 3851 10461 3823 10439 3824 10468 $$ LW
605 WGUS75 KPUB 170222 FFSPUB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 822 PM MDT TUE AUG 16 2016 COC101-170232- /O.CAN.KPUB.FF.W.0025.000000T0000Z-160817T0330Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ PUEBLO CO- 822 PM MDT TUE AUG 16 2016 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL PUEBLO COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED. FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE A THREAT. PLEASE CONTINUE TO AVOID DRIVING INTO WATER OVER ROADWAYS. LAT...LON 3851 10470 3851 10461 3823 10439 3824 10468 $$ LW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 6:17 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent | 43 min |
| Aug 16, 6:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Kiowa, Otero | 24 min |
| Aug 16, 6:23 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Fremont, Pueblo | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 3:33 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Custer, Fremont, Saguache | 117 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.