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Flash Flood Watch 6, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 1, 201015 counties in Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood watch at Aug 1, 2010, 4:04 AM MDT for 15 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Aug 2, 2010, 3:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 1, 2010, 4:04 AM MDT (10:04 UTC)
In effect from: Aug 2, 2010, 3:00 PM MDT
Expired: Aug 2, 2010, 11:14 PM MDT
In force: 8 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 10:07 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 Aug 1, 1:34 AM MDT, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 1, 1:34 AM MDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 1, 1:32 AM MDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 31, 11:23 PM MDT, 4 hours 41 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 31, 7:00 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Las Animas	3 hr
Jul 31, 8:55 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Kiowa, Prowers	5 hr
Jul 31, 9:37 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Kiowa, Prowers	8 hr
Aug 1, 2:00 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Kiowa, Prowers	3 hr
Aug 1, 2:46 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso	68 min
Aug 1, 3:50 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso, Pueblo	86 min
Aug 1, 5:56 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Chaffee, Fremont	90 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Watches in Colorado, 2010 Every flash flood watch in 2010

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.