Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 2016
Flash Flood Warning 37, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 31, 2016, 8:37 PM MDT for Custer County, Fremont County, Saguache 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 31, 2016, 8:37 PM MDT (02:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2016, 11:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Custer County, CO, Fremont County, CO, Saguache County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 258 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
- 51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3251 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
308 WGUS55 KPUB 010237 FFWPUB COC027-043-109-010530- /O.NEW.KPUB.FF.W.0037.160901T0237Z-160901T0530Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 837 PM MDT WED AUG 31 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL SAGUACHE COUNTY IN CENTRAL COLORADO... SOUTHWESTERN FREMONT COUNTY IN CENTRAL COLORADO... NORTHWESTERN CUSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO... * UNTIL 1130 PM MDT * AT 834 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF EXPERIENCING FLOODING INCLUDE... THE HAYDEN PASS BURN SCAR... THE DUCKETT BURN SCAR...COALDALE AND HILLSIDE. EXCESSIVE RAINFALL OVER AND NEAR THE BURN SCAR WILL RESULT IN DEBRIS FLOW MOVING IN AND NEAR THE BURN SCARS. THE DEBRIS FLOW CAN CONSIST OF ROCK...MUD...VEGETATION AND OTHER LOOSE MATERIALS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. PLEASE REPORT FLOODING TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. && LAT...LON 3838 10571 3820 10553 3819 10581 3835 10587 $$
1 follow-up statement
289 WGUS75 KPUB 010410 FFSPUB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1010 PM MDT WED AUG 31 2016 COC027-043-109-010420- /O.CAN.KPUB.FF.W.0037.000000T0000Z-160901T0530Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ SAGUACHE CO-FREMONT CO-CUSTER CO- 1010 PM MDT WED AUG 31 2016 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL SAGUACHE...SOUTHWESTERN FREMONT AND NORTHWESTERN CUSTER COUNTIES IS CANCELLED... THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED. FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE A THREAT. PLEASE CONTINUE TO HEED ANY REMAINING ROAD CLOSURES. LAT...LON 3838 10571 3820 10553 3819 10581 3835 10587 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 6:33 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Baca | 87 min |
| Aug 31, 7:53 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Custer | 82 min |
| Aug 31, 8:01 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | 89 min | |
| Aug 31, 9:11 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Chaffee | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 9:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Baca | 90 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.