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Flash Flood Watch 3, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 30, 201015 counties in Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood watch at Jul 30, 2010, 3:37 AM MDT for 15 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Jul 30, 2010, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 30, 2010, 3:37 AM MDT (09:37 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 30, 2010, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired: Jul 30, 2010, 9:00 PM MDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Flood severity: None

Counties Alamosa County, CO, Chaffee County, CO, Conejos County, CO, Costilla County, CO, Custer County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Fremont County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Lake County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Mineral County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Rio Grande County, CO, Saguache County, CO, Teller County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Pueblo, CO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood watch went out at Jul 29, 3:23 PM MDT, 12 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 3:23 PM MDT, 12 hours 14 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 29, 8:47 PM MDT, 6 hours 50 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 29, 10:02 PM MDT, 5 hours 35 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 30, 12:58 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Costilla	51 min
Jul 30, 1:38 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Costilla	66 min
Jul 30, 1:47 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Alamosa, Saguache	41 min
Jul 30, 2:26 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Fremont, Saguache	2 hr
Jul 30, 2:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley	40 min
Jul 30, 3:00 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Fremont	119 min
Jul 30, 3:12 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Crowley	108 min
Jul 30, 3:20 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso	74 min
Jul 30, 3:53 PM MDT	Flash Flood Watch	PUB	Alamosa, Bent, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla, Crowley and 13 more	29 hr
Jul 30, 5:00 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso	80 min
Jul 30, 5:21 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Pueblo	84 min
Jul 30, 5:25 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Chaffee, Fremont	3 hr
Jul 30, 5:50 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Chaffee, Fremont	3 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.