Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 2019
Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 9, 2019, 4:19 PM MDT for El Paso County, Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 2 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 9, 2019, 4:19 PM MDT (22:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2019, 6:20 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties El Paso County, CO, Pueblo County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:20 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 9, 4:40 PM MDT | FLASH FLOOD | 7 Nnw Pinon, CO | HIGH WATER ACROSS ROADWAYS 6 TO 10 INCHES DEEP. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -265 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2140 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
225
WGUS55 KPUB 092219
FFWPUB
COC041-101-100115-
/O.NEW.KPUB.FF.W.0049.190809T2219Z-190810T0115Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
419 PM MDT Fri Aug 9 2019
The National Weather Service in Pueblo has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Southwestern El Paso County in east central Colorado...
Northwestern Pueblo County in southeastern Colorado...
* Until 715 PM MDT.
* At 418 PM MDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain across the
warned area. 3 to 5 inches of rain have fallen. Flash flooding is
expected to begin shortly.
* Some locations that will experience flooding include...
I25 in southern El Paso County and in northern Pueblo County, as
well as Pinon.
LAT...LON 3858 10458 3840 10458 3840 10464 3846 10464
3858 10468 3856 10462
$$
KTS1 follow-up statement
172
WGUS75 KPUB 100020 RRA
FFSPUB
Flash Flood Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
620 PM MDT Fri Aug 9 2019
COC041-101-100030-
/O.CAN.KPUB.FF.W.0049.000000T0000Z-190810T0115Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
El Paso CO-Pueblo CO-
620 PM MDT Fri Aug 9 2019
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN EL PASO AND NORTHWESTERN
PUEBLO COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
The heavy rain has ended. Flood waters have receded. Flooding is no
longer expected to pose a threat. Please continue to heed any
remaining road closures.
LAT...LON 3858 10458 3840 10458 3840 10464 3846 10464
3858 10468 3856 10462
$$
KTSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 6:23 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 52 min |
| Aug 8, 6:31 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Pueblo | 44 min |
| Aug 8, 7:17 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Crowley | 43 min |
| Aug 8, 7:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, Pueblo | 25 min |
| Aug 8, 7:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, Pueblo | 7 min |
| Aug 8, 7:54 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Crowley | 51 min |
| Aug 8, 10:17 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Elbert | 28 min |
| Aug 8, 10:18 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent | 42 min |
| Aug 8, 10:27 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent | 18 min |
| Aug 8, 10:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent, Prowers | 31 min |
| Aug 8, 10:55 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | El Paso | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 10:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent, Prowers | 32 min |
| Aug 8, 11:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 32 min |
| Aug 8, 11:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 20 min |
| Aug 8, 11:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 34 min |
| Aug 9, 12:24 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Baca | 36 min |
| Aug 9, 12:29 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 14 min |
| Aug 9, 12:44 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Baca | 46 min |
| Aug 9, 1:19 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Huerfano | 26 min |
| Aug 9, 1:37 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | El Paso | 23 min |
| Aug 9, 2:07 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Las Animas | 113 min |
| Aug 9, 2:23 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Costilla, Huerfano | 3 hr |
| Aug 9, 2:38 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 37 min |
| Aug 9, 2:50 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | El Paso | 25 min |
| Aug 9, 3:06 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Pueblo | 24 min |
| Aug 9, 3:13 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | El Paso | 32 min |
| Aug 9, 3:20 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | El Paso | 115 min |
| Aug 9, 3:36 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | El Paso | 3 hr |
| Aug 9, 3:46 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | El Paso | 29 min |
| Aug 9, 3:55 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Costilla, Huerfano | 3 hr |
| Aug 9, 5:25 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Baca | 35 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.