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Flash Flood Watch 9, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood watch at Aug 4, 2010, 11:27 AM MDT for 20 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Aug 5, 2010, 2:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 4, 2010, 11:27 AM MDT (17:27 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 5, 2010, 2:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2010, 8:34 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Alamosa County, CO, Bent County, CO, Chaffee County, CO, Conejos County, CO, Costilla County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Custer County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Fremont County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Lake County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Mineral County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Rio Grande County, CO, Saguache County, CO, Teller County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:28 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 250 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
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 667 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 4, 4:11 AM MDT, 7 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 4:11 AM MDT, 7 hours 16 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 2:29 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Chaffee | 2 hr |
| Aug 4, 3:26 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Teller | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 3:35 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Fremont | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 3:49 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Teller | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 4:01 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Chaffee | 2 hr |
| Aug 4, 4:57 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Chaffee, Custer, Fremont | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 5:05 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | El Paso, Teller | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 5:20 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | El Paso, Teller | 2 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.