Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 2020
Flash Flood Warning 66, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 28, 2020, 8:58 PM MDT for Baca County, Bent County, Las Animas 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 28, 2020, 8:58 PM MDT (02:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 2020, 12:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Las Animas County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:59 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 (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 249 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1513 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted.
472
WGUS55 KPUB 290258
FFWPUB
COC009-011-071-290600-
/O.NEW.KPUB.FF.W.0066.200829T0258Z-200829T0600Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
858 PM MDT Fri Aug 28 2020
The National Weather Service in Pueblo has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Northwestern Baca County in southeastern Colorado...
East central Las Animas County in southeastern Colorado...
Southeastern Bent County in southeastern Colorado...
* Until midnight MDT.
* At 857 PM MDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Up to around two inches of rain
have already fallen. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to
begin shortly.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Flooding of small creeks and streams, urban areas,
highways, streets and underpasses as well as other
drainage and low lying areas.
* Flash flooding will remain over mainly rural areas of northwestern
Baca, east central Las Animas and southeastern Bent Counties.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
&&
LAT...LON 3745 10305 3758 10327 3790 10312 3778 10284
FLASH FLOOD...RADAR INDICATED
$$
Rodriguez2 follow-up statements
768
WGUS75 KPUB 290407
FFSPUB
Flash Flood Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
1007 PM MDT Fri Aug 28 2020
COC009-011-071-290600-
/O.CON.KPUB.FF.W.0066.000000T0000Z-200829T0600Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
Baca CO-Las Animas CO-Bent CO-
1007 PM MDT Fri Aug 28 2020
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT FOR
NORTHWESTERN BACA...EAST CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS AND SOUTHEASTERN BENT
COUNTIES...
At 1006 PM MDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Up to two and a half inches of
rain have already fallen. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to
begin shortly.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Flooding of small creeks and streams, urban areas,
highways, streets and underpasses as well as other drainage
and low lying areas.
Flash flooding will remain over mainly rural areas of northwestern
Baca, east central Las Animas and southeastern Bent Counties.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
&&
LAT...LON 3745 10305 3758 10327 3790 10312 3778 10284
FLASH FLOOD...RADAR INDICATED
$$
Rodriguez082 WGUS75 KPUB 290556 FFSPUB Flash Flood Statement National Weather Service Pueblo CO 1156 PM MDT Fri Aug 28 2020 COC009-011-071-290605- /O.EXP.KPUB.FF.W.0066.000000T0000Z-200829T0600Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ Baca CO-Las Animas CO-Bent CO- 1156 PM MDT Fri Aug 28 2020 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN BACA...EAST CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS AND SOUTHEASTERN BENT COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT MIDNIGHT MDT... 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 3745 10305 3758 10327 3790 10312 3778 10284 $$ Rodriguez
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 6:16 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Costilla, Huerfano | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 7:10 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Baca | 50 min |
| Aug 28, 7:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 38 min |
| Aug 28, 8:03 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Baca, Bent | 42 min |
| Aug 28, 8:45 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 45 min |
| Aug 28, 9:25 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Prowers | 50 min |
| Aug 29, 1:33 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 42 min |
| Aug 29, 1:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano, Pueblo | 45 min |
| Aug 29, 1:59 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Huerfano | 46 min |
| Aug 29, 2:10 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Custer, Pueblo | 3 hr |
| Aug 29, 2:23 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Huerfano | 52 min |
| Aug 29, 2:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano, Pueblo | 19 min |
| Aug 29, 2:32 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 43 min |
| Aug 29, 2:49 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 41 min |
| Aug 29, 3:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 45 min |
| Aug 29, 3:43 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | 47 min | |
| Aug 29, 3:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 19 min |
| Aug 29, 4:04 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 41 min |
| Aug 29, 4:44 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent | 46 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.