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Areal Flood Warning 4, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 8, 2019Mineral County, Rio Grande County, Saguache County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this areal flood warning at Jun 8, 2019, 2:03 PM MDT for Mineral County, Rio Grande County, Saguache County, Colorado. It was in force for 48 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: Jun 8, 2019, 2:03 PM MDT (20:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2019, 2:00 PM MDT
In force: 48 hr
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Mineral County, CO, Rio Grande County, CO, Saguache County, CO

The radar

The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 205 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:06 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 369 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2844 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 114 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 Jun 8, 11:31 AM MDT, 2 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 11:31 AM MDT, 2 hours 32 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
Jun 8, 12:55 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Mineral	60 hr
Jun 8, 1:25 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Mineral, Rio Grande	60 hr
Jun 8, 1:50 AM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	PUB	Mineral	24 hr
Jun 8, 7:49 AM MDT	Flood Watch	PUB	Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache	12 days
Jun 8, 7:53 AM MDT	River Flood Warning	PUB	Rio Grande	72 hr
Jun 8, 7:55 AM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	PUB	Conejos	60 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.