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Areal Flood Advisory 29, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this areal flood advisory at Aug 24, 2012, 3:59 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 24, 2012, 3:59 PM MDT (21:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2012, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Kiowa County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 259 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
- 303 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -200 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 708 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 332 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 2:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Prowers | 25 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.