Alert archive / Colorado / Flash Flood Warnings in 2021
Flash Flood Warning 53, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 13, 2021, 6:02 PM MDT for Huerfano 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
- Jul 13, 2021, 6:02 PM MDT (00:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2021, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 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
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 294 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
- 377 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2810 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
021
WGUS55 KPUB 140002
FFWPUB
COC055-071-140300-
/O.NEW.KPUB.FF.W.0053.210714T0002Z-210714T0300Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
602 PM MDT Tue Jul 13 2021
The National Weather Service in Pueblo has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Southeastern Huerfano County in southeastern Colorado...
Southwestern Las Animas County in southeastern Colorado...
* Until 900 PM MDT.
* At 602 PM MDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the southern face of the Spanish Peaks. Between
1 and 2 inches of rain has fallen. Flash flooding is ongoing or
expected to begin shortly.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams on the
southern faces of the Spanish Peaks is likely
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Aguilar, Cokedale, Gulnare, Boncarbo and Weston.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
&&
LAT...LON 3733 10501 3737 10490 3741 10477 3747 10449
3714 10458 3712 10485 3712 10486 3713 10487
FLASH FLOOD...RADAR INDICATED
$$
HodanishThe office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 6:28 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 47 min |
| Jul 13, 6:32 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 28 min |
| Jul 13, 6:47 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Kiowa | 43 min |
| Jul 13, 6:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 48 min |
| Jul 13, 7:10 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 35 min |
| Jul 13, 7:50 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 40 min |
| Jul 13, 9:08 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Kiowa | 37 min |
| Jul 14, 3:14 AM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla, Custer, Fremont and 6 more | 18 hr |
| Jul 14, 3:55 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Costilla, Huerfano | 3 hr |
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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.