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Flash Flood Watch 3, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

July 12, 201411 counties in Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this flash flood watch at Jul 12, 2014, 10:41 AM MDT for 11 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Jul 12, 2014, 1:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 12, 2014, 10:41 AM MDT (16:41 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 12, 2014, 1:00 PM MDT
Expired: Jul 12, 2014, 9:01 PM MDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Flood severity: None

Counties Adams County, CO, Arapahoe County, CO, Boulder County, CO, Broomfield County, CO, Clear Creek County, CO, Denver County, CO, Douglas County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Gilpin County, CO, Jefferson County, CO, Park County, CO

The radar

The Denver radar (KFTG), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:46 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 (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 154 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 73 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -257 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1359 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Denver/Boulder, CO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood watch went out at Jul 12, 10:36 AM MDT, 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 12, 10:36 AM MDT, 5 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 11, 6:22 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BOU	Logan	38 min
Jul 11, 6:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Logan, Morgan, Washington	23 min
Jul 11, 6:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Phillips, Sedgwick	24 min
Jul 11, 6:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Logan, Washington	34 min
Jul 11, 7:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Phillips, Sedgwick	27 min
Jul 11, 7:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BOU	Washington	39 min
Jul 11, 8:34 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOU	Washington	3 hr
Jul 11, 8:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BOU	Phillips	27 min
Jul 12, 2:26 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BOU	Weld	34 min
Jul 12, 3:01 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOU	Larimer	89 min
Jul 12, 3:23 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOU	Park	3 hr
Jul 12, 4:02 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOU	Larimer	88 min
Jul 12, 4:34 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOU	Larimer	86 min
Jul 12, 5:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Arapahoe	25 min
Jul 12, 5:23 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOU	Adams, Arapahoe	97 min
Jul 12, 5:46 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOU	Douglas, Elbert	89 min
Jul 12, 5:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Arapahoe, Elbert	25 min

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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.