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Flash Flood Watch 20, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood watch at Sep 14, 2013, 12:51 PM MDT for El Paso County, Fremont County, Teller County, Colorado. It took effect at Sep 15, 2013, 6:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 14, 2013, 12:51 PM MDT (18:51 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 15, 2013, 6:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Sep 15, 2013, 11:46 PM MDT
- In force
- 18 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 18:53 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 (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 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
- 449 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 585 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 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 Sep 14, 11:17 AM MDT, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 14, 11:17 AM MDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 14, 11:23 AM MDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1123 AM MDT SAT SEP 14 2013 COZ058>089-093>099-151730- 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- 1123 AM MDT SAT SEP 14 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...EAST CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN SHOWERS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. IF ONE OF THESE SHOWERS HITS A BURN SCAR...RUNOFF PROBLEMS COULD OCCUR...ESPECIALLY SINCE SOILS ARE SATURATED FROM RECENT HEAVY RAINS. OTHER STORM THREATS TODAY WILL INCLUDE LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS. SNOW SHOWERS WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE MOUNTAINS ABOVE 12000 FEET. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY A COOL FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH EASTERN COLORADO SUNDAY MORNING BRINGING FAIRLY WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE EASTERN MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS AND SCATTERED ACTIVITY TO THE WESTERN MOUNTAINS AND HIGH VALLEYS. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 0.25 TO 1.00 INCHES LOOK POSSIBLE SUNDAY INTO SUNDAY EVENING BASED ON THE LATEST MODEL DATA. WHILE THIS AMOUNT OF RAIN IS JUST A SMALL FRACTION OF WHAT OCCURRED OVER THE AREA ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY...IT MAY STILL BE ENOUGH TO TRIGGER SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING PROBLEMS GIVEN THE CURRENT STATE OF SOIL SATURATION ACROSS THE AREA. FOLKS ARE URGED TO REMAIN WEATHER ALERT ON SUNDAY AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION IF NECESSARY. THIS HOLDS ESPECIALLY TRUE FOR THOSE FOLKS NEAR AREA BURN SCARS...WHERE THE THREAT IS LIKELY GREATEST. ON MONDAY...DRIER AIR WILL BEGIN FILTERING INTO THE REGION. THERE WILL STILL BE ENOUGH MOISTURE AROUND FOR A FEW AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...BUT THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAIN WILL BE VERY SPOTTY. FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK...A GENERAL DRYING TREND WILL CONTINUE. THERE WILL STILL BE A FEW AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY...BUT MOST STORMS WILL BE CONFINED TO THE MOUNTAIN AREAS AND HAVE LITTLE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAIN. PRIMARY STORM THREATS DURING THIS PERIOD WILL BE LIGHTING AND GUSTY WINDS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER CONDITIONS THAT MEET REPORTING CRITERIA FOR SPOTTERS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. 50/50
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 1:28 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | El Paso | 3 hr |
| Sep 14, 4:01 PM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | PUB | El Paso | 6 hr |
| Sep 14, 5:32 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Fremont | 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.