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Areal Flood Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 15, 2014Bent County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this areal flood warning at Jul 15, 2014, 8:28 AM MDT for Bent County, Colorado. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 15, 2014, 8:28 AM MDT (14:28 UTC)
Expired
Jul 15, 2014, 11:30 AM MDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Bent County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:28 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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 213 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 12:00Z on 2014-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 90 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 12:00Z on 2014-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 55 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
90 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-149 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
840 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
140 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 areal flood warning 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 areal flood warning went out at Jul 15, 4:22 AM MDT, 4 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 4:22 AM MDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 15, 6:30 AM MDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 15, 2:44 AM MDT, 5 hours 44 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
244 AM MDT TUE JUL 15 2014

COZ086-089-093-150915-
CROWLEY COUNTY CO-LA JUNTA VICINITY/OTERO COUNTY CO-
PUEBLO VICINITY/PUEBLO COUNTY BELOW 6300 FEET CO-
244 AM MDT TUE JUL 15 2014

...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...

AT 243 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF FOWLER...OR 28 MILES EAST OF
PUEBLO...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH.

PEA SIZE HAIL AND RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO AN INCH ARE POSSIBLE
WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ROCKY FORD...FOWLER...MANZANOLA...OLNEY SPRINGS AND CROWLEY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO MINOR FLOODING OF AREA STREAMS AND NORMALLY DRY ARROYOS. DO NOT
DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.

&&

LAT...LON 3823 10426 3837 10392 3804 10373 3789 10406
TIME...MOT...LOC 0843Z 344DEG 24KT 3820 10409

ETP
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 3:07 AM MDT, 5 hours 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
307 AM MDT TUE JUL 15 2014

COZ086-089-093-150930-
CROWLEY COUNTY CO-LA JUNTA VICINITY/OTERO COUNTY CO-
PUEBLO VICINITY/PUEBLO COUNTY BELOW 6300 FEET CO-
307 AM MDT TUE JUL 15 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN CROWLEY...SOUTHWESTERN
OTERO AND SOUTHEASTERN PUEBLO COUNTIES UNTIL 330 AM MDT...

AT 307 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR FOWLER...OR 25 MILES WEST OF LA JUNTA...
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

PEA SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
FOWLER...MANZANOLA AND OLNEY SPRINGS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

&&

LAT...LON 3809 10413 3818 10394 3789 10365 3775 10394
TIME...MOT...LOC 0907Z 328DEG 24KT 3808 10399

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Local storm report, Jul 15, 6:06 AM MDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 14, 6:04 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBFremont41 min
Jul 14, 6:06 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPUBEl Paso3 hr
Jul 14, 6:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso46 min
Jul 14, 6:26 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBEl Paso2 hr
Jul 14, 6:30 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBKiowa30 min
Jul 14, 6:47 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBEl Paso, Pueblo3 hr
Jul 14, 6:58 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBEl Paso32 min
Jul 14, 7:19 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBHuerfano26 min
Jul 14, 7:23 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBEl Paso37 min
Jul 15, 12:47 AM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPUBEl Paso3 hr
Jul 15, 1:54 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBCrowley36 min
Jul 15, 2:18 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBTeller27 min
Jul 15, 2:44 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBCrowley31 min
Jul 15, 3:07 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBOtero23 min
Jul 15, 4:08 AM MDTFlash Flood WatchPUBEl Paso, Fremont, Teller20 hr
Jul 15, 1:11 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBCostilla34 min
Jul 15, 1:38 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBCuster37 min
Jul 15, 1:47 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBChaffee28 min
Jul 15, 1:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBCuster, Fremont, Saguache19 min
Jul 15, 2:11 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBTeller34 min
Jul 15, 2:14 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBTeller31 min
Jul 15, 2:26 PM MDTRiver Flood WarningPUBOtero35 hr
Jul 15, 2:53 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBFremont37 min
Jul 15, 3:29 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBChaffee31 min
Jul 15, 3:43 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBTeller32 min
Jul 15, 4:01 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPUBEl Paso3 hr
Jul 15, 4:22 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBCostilla38 min
Jul 15, 4:24 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBHuerfano51 min
Jul 15, 4:28 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBRio Grande32 min
Jul 15, 4:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBHuerfano, Las Animas, Pueblo50 min
Jul 15, 5:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBConejos, Costilla39 min
Jul 15, 5:10 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBLas Animas3 hr
Jul 15, 5:14 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBHuerfano, Las Animas3 hr
Jul 15, 5:30 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBLas Animas45 min

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in Colorado, 2014Every areal flood warning in 2014

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.