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Flash Flood Watch 12, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood watch at Aug 10, 2013, 5:31 AM MDT for El Paso County, Fremont County, Teller County, Colorado. It took effect at Aug 10, 2013, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 2013, 5:31 AM MDT (11:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 10, 2013, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2013, 8:49 PM MDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Flood severity
- None
Counties El Paso County, CO, Fremont County, CO, Teller County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 180 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1499 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 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 9, 11:19 PM MDT, 6 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 11:19 PM MDT, 6 hours 12 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 6:30 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Fremont | 3 hr |
| Aug 9, 6:40 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Fremont | 110 min |
| Aug 9, 7:04 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Fremont | 116 min |
| Aug 9, 7:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano, Las Animas | 44 min |
| Aug 9, 7:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 41 min |
| Aug 9, 7:57 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Fremont, Pueblo | 3 hr |
| Aug 9, 8:40 PM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | PUB | El Paso | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 5:00 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Mineral, Rio Grande | 3 hr |
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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.