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Areal Flood Advisory 3, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 7, 2011Las Animas County, Otero County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this areal flood advisory at Jul 7, 2011, 5:23 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Otero County, Colorado. It was in force for 102 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 7, 2011, 5:23 PM MDT (23:23 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 2011, 7:05 PM MDT
In force
102 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:26 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 258 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2011-07-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 371 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2011-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
371 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-105 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
834 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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What forecasters said that day

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

Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 6, 5:26 PM MDT, 23 hours 57 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 6, 8:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBent, Prowers56 min
Jul 6, 9:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa, Prowers37 min
Jul 7, 2:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso, Teller34 min
Jul 7, 2:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBHuerfano, Las Animas25 min
Jul 7, 2:29 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBLas Animas89 min
Jul 7, 2:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBHuerfano56 min
Jul 7, 5:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBPueblo62 min

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.