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Flash Flood Watch 6, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 19, 2013El Paso County, Fremont County, Teller County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood watch at Jul 19, 2013, 4:06 AM MDT for El Paso County, Fremont County, Teller County, Colorado. It took effect at Jul 19, 2013, 11:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 19, 2013, 4:06 AM MDT (10:06 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 19, 2013, 11:00 AM MDT
Expired
Jul 19, 2013, 7:30 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 10:09 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2013-07-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2013-07-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -108 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3140 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
72 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 18, 6:40 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPUBFremont110 min
Jul 19, 4:34 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPUBEl Paso116 min
Jul 19, 5:31 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPUBEl Paso3 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.