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Areal Flood Warning 3, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 29, 2014Alamosa County, Costilla County, Huerfano County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this areal flood warning at Jul 29, 2014, 12:55 AM MDT for Alamosa County, Costilla County, Huerfano 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 29, 2014, 12:55 AM MDT (06:55 UTC)
Expired: Jul 29, 2014, 3:56 AM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Alamosa County, CO, Costilla County, CO, Huerfano County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 294 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: 33 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2278 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -4 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 28, 11:17 PM MDT, 1 hour 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 11:17 PM MDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 28, 11:03 PM MDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 28, 7:58 PM MDT, 4 hours 57 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 28, 8:59 PM MDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 28, 6:40 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Huerfano, Pueblo	2 hr
Jul 28, 6:49 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas	3 hr
Jul 29, 12:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	37 min
Jul 29, 12:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Costilla	26 min
Jul 29, 1:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB		30 min
Jul 29, 1:32 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	28 min
Jul 29, 1:42 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Las Animas	2 hr
Jul 29, 2:21 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso	54 min
Jul 29, 2:54 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	36 min
Jul 29, 3:06 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	24 min
Jul 29, 3:13 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso	3 hr
Jul 29, 3:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	35 min
Jul 29, 3:33 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Kiowa	117 min
Jul 29, 3:37 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	23 min
Jul 29, 4:06 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Kiowa	114 min
Jul 29, 4:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	30 min
Jul 29, 4:18 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Pueblo	117 min
Jul 29, 4:22 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	4 hr
Jul 29, 4:36 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	24 min
Jul 29, 4:38 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Mineral, Rio Grande	3 hr
Jul 29, 4:45 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	30 min
Jul 29, 5:06 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Kiowa	3 hr
Jul 29, 5:09 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Las Animas	2 hr
Jul 29, 5:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	32 min
Jul 29, 5:38 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa, Prowers	6 hr
Jul 29, 5:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	26 min
Jul 29, 5:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	22 min

Nearby

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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.