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Flash Flood Watch 7, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood watch at Aug 3, 2010, 4:29 AM MDT for 15 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Aug 3, 2010, 2:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 2010, 4:29 AM MDT (10:29 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 3, 2010, 2:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2010, 10:00 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 10:31 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
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 281 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
- 192 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -163 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1746 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
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 3, 4:18 AM MDT, 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 4:18 AM MDT, 11 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 657 AM MDT MON AUG 2 2010 COZ058>089-093>099-031300- WESTERN MOSQUITO RANGE/EAST LAKE COUNTY ABOVE 11000 FT- LEADVILLE VICINITY/LAKE COUNTY BELOW 11000 FT- EASTERN SAWATCH MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FT- WESTERN CHAFFEE COUNTY BETWEEN 9000 AND 11000 FT- CENTRAL CHAFFEE COUNTY BELOW 9000 FT- WESTERN MOSQUITO RANGE/EAST CHAFFEE COUNTY ABOVE 9000 FT- SAGUACHE COUNTY WEST OF CONTINENTAL DIVIDE BELOW 10000 FT- SAGUACHE COUNTY EAST OF CONTINENTAL DIVIDE BELOW 10000 FT- LA GARITA MOUNTAINS ABOVE 10000 FT- UPPER RIO GRANDE VALLEY/EASTERN SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS BELOW 10000 FT- EASTERN SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS ABOVE 10000 FT- DEL NORTE VICINITY/NORTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- ALAMOSA VICINITY/CENTRAL SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- SOUTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY- NORTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 8500 AND 11000 FT- NORTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FEET- SOUTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 7500 AND 11000 FT- SOUTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FT- NORTHWESTERN FREMONT COUNTY ABOVE 8500 FT- WESTERN/CENTRAL FREMONT COUNTY BELOW 8500 FT- WET MOUNTAIN VALLEY BELOW 8500 FEET- WET MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 6300 AND 10000 FT- WET MOUNTAINS ABOVE 10000 FT- TELLER COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE ABOVE 7500 FT/PIKES PEAK BETWEEN 7500 AND 11000 FT-PIKES PEAK ABOVE 11000 FT- CANON CITY VICINITY/EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY- NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/MONUMENT RIDGE/RAMPART RANGE BELOW 7500 FT- COLORADO SPRINGS VICINITY/SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE BELOW 7400 FT-PUEBLO AND VICINITY/PUEBLO COUNTY BELOW 6300 FT- WALSENBURG VICINITY/UPPER HUERFANO RIVER BASIN BELOW 7500 FT- TRINIDAD VICINITY/WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY BELOW 7500 FT- CROWLEY COUNTY-LA JUNTA VICINITY/OTERO COUNTY- EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY-WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY- EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY-LAS ANIMAS VICINITY/BENT COUNTY- LAMAR VICINITY/PROWERS COUNTY-SPRINGFIELD VICINITY/BACA COUNTY- 657 AM MDT MON AUG 2 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...EAST CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER THE MOUNTAINS...ADJACENT PLAINS AND PALMER DIVIDE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SMALL PEA SIZE HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY STRONGER STORMS...BUT THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE FROM LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH WILL ONCE AGAIN BRING THE POTENTIAL FOR FLASH FLOODING. MUD OR ROCK SLIDES WILL BE OF PARTICULAR CONCERN FOR THE MOUNTAIN AREAS...ESPECIALLY IN AREAS THAT HAVE SEEN HEAVY RAINFALL THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS. URBAN AREAS AND AREAS WITH POOR RUNOFF WILL ALSO BE SUSCEPTIBLE TO FLOODING LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY MONSOON FLOW WILL CONTINUE OVER THE REGION THROUGH THE REST OF THE WEEK AND INTO THE WEEKEND. THIS WILL ALLOW FOR AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP OVER THE REGION EVERY DAY...WITH SOME OF THESE STORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER CONDITIONS THAT MEET REPORTING CRITERIA FOR SPOTTERS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND VALLEYS ALONG AND WEST OF INTERSTATE 25 THROUGH THIS EVENING. 88/34
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Special weather statement, Aug 2, 10:29 PM MDT, 6 hours before
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Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 6:03 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Custer, Huerfano | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 6:33 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Fremont, Teller | 4 hr |
| Aug 2, 6:48 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Fremont, Pueblo | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 7:01 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Fremont | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 7:12 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 7:23 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Huerfano, Las Animas | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 8:04 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Costilla, Huerfano, Las Animas | 2 hr |
| Aug 3, 4:29 AM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Bent, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla, Crowley and 14 more | 42 hr |
| Aug 3, 2:12 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Chaffee | 107 min |
| Aug 3, 3:57 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | El Paso, Teller | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 4:15 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Fremont | 64 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.