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Areal Flood Advisory 49, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this areal flood advisory at Aug 17, 2016, 3:33 PM MDT for Custer County, Fremont County, Saguache County, Colorado. It was in force for 117 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 17, 2016, 3:33 PM MDT (21:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 2016, 5:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Custer County, CO, Fremont County, CO, Saguache County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:33 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
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 362 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
- 22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -220 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2151 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood advisory 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 advisory went out at Aug 16, 5:38 PM MDT, 21 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 5:38 PM MDT, 21 hours 55 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 6:17 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent | 43 min |
| Aug 16, 6:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Kiowa, Otero | 24 min |
| Aug 16, 6:23 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Fremont, Pueblo | 3 hr |
| Aug 16, 6:25 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Fremont, Pueblo | 3 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.