Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 2021
Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 1, 2021, 10:27 PM MDT for 4 counties in Colorado. It was in force for 66 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 1, 2021, 10:27 PM MDT (04:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2021, 11:33 PM MDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Chaffee County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Fremont County, CO, Teller County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 233 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
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1238 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
471
WGUS55 KPUB 020427
FFWPUB
COC015-041-043-119-020730-
/O.NEW.KPUB.FF.W.0030.210702T0427Z-210702T0730Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
1027 PM MDT Thu Jul 1 2021
The National Weather Service in Pueblo has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
East Central Chaffee County in central Colorado...
Northern Fremont County in central Colorado...
Teller County in central Colorado...
West Central El Paso County in east central Colorado...
* Until 130 AM MDT.
* At 1027 PM MDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain
have fallen. An area of moderate to heavy rain will move across
northern Fremont and into Teller county by 10:30 pm.
Quite a few areas in northern Fremont county have already received
heavy rain earlier this evening.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban
areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as
other poor drainage and low-lying areas.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Woodland Park, Cripple Creek, Green Mountain Falls, Victor,
Florissant, Waugh Mountain, Divide, Texas Creek and Pikes Peak.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
&&
LAT...LON 3869 10596 3870 10533 3913 10533 3912 10503
3870 10503 3836 10551 3854 10597
FLASH FLOOD...RADAR INDICATED
$$
Hodanish1 follow-up statement
702
WGUS75 KPUB 020533
FFSPUB
Flash Flood Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
1133 PM MDT Thu Jul 1 2021
COC015-041-043-119-020543-
/O.CAN.KPUB.FF.W.0030.000000T0000Z-210702T0730Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
Chaffee CO-El Paso CO-Fremont CO-Teller CO-
1133 PM MDT Thu Jul 1 2021
...FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR EAST CENTRAL CHAFFEE,
NORTHERN FREMONT, TELLER AND WEST CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTIES...
Flooding is no longer expected to pose a threat. Please continue to
heed remaining road closures.
A Flash Flood Watch remains in effect until 1200 AM MDT for portions
of central Colorado, east central Colorado and southeast Colorado.
LAT...LON 3869 10596 3870 10533 3913 10533 3912 10503
3870 10503 3836 10551 3854 10597
$$
HodanishThe office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 6:03 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 42 min |
| Jul 1, 6:08 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Custer | 37 min |
| Jul 1, 6:23 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Fremont | 37 min |
| Jul 1, 6:46 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 44 min |
| Jul 1, 6:51 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Fremont | 39 min |
| Jul 1, 6:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 34 min |
| Jul 1, 7:08 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Otero | 2 hr |
| Jul 1, 7:29 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Fremont | 46 min |
| Jul 1, 7:32 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 43 min |
| Jul 1, 8:52 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Chaffee, Fremont, Saguache | 2 hr |
| Jul 1, 9:09 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Fremont, Pueblo | 2 hr |
| Jul 1, 9:58 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Crowley, El Paso, Pueblo | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 12:58 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Chaffee | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 3:00 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Huerfano | 45 min |
| Jul 2, 3:31 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Custer | 44 min |
| Jul 2, 3:32 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Fremont | 43 min |
| Jul 2, 4:11 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Costilla | 34 min |
| Jul 2, 4:33 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Costilla, Huerfano | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 4:52 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Costilla, Huerfano | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 5:04 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Costilla | 41 min |
| Jul 2, 5:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Costilla | 18 min |
| Jul 2, 5:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano | 30 min |
| Jul 2, 5:52 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Huerfano | 97 min |
| Jul 2, 5:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano, Las Animas | 23 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.