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Flood Watch 6, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flood watch at Aug 8, 2022, 11:29 AM MDT for 8 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Aug 8, 2022, 1:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 2022, 11:29 AM MDT (17:29 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 8, 2022, 1:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2022, 7:51 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Alamosa County, CO, Chaffee County, CO, Costilla County, CO, Custer County, CO, Fremont County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Saguache County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:29 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
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 299 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -261 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2697 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Aug 8, 10:49 AM MDT, 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 10:49 AM MDT, 40 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 8, 11:02 AM MDT, 27 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Pueblo CO 1102 AM MDT Mon Aug 8 2022 COZ058>089-093>099-091715- Western Mosquito Range/East Lake County Above 11000 Feet- Leadville Vicinity/Lake County Below 11000 Feet- Eastern Sawatch Mountains Above 11000 Feet- Western Chaffee County Between 9000 and 11000 Feet- Central Chaffee County Below 9000 Feet- Western Mosquito Range/East Chaffee County Above 9000 Feet- Saguache County West of Continental Divide Below 10000 Feet- Saguache County East of Continental Divide Below 10000 Feet- La Garita Mountains Above 10000 Feet- Upper Rio Grande Valley/Eastern San Juan Mountains Below 10000 Feet-Eastern San Juan Mountains Above 10000 Feet- Del Norte Vicinity/Northern San Luis Valley Below 8500 Feet- Alamosa Vicinity/Central San Luis Valley Below 8500 Feet- Southern San Luis Valley- Northern Sangre de Cristo Mountains Between 8500 And 11000 Feet- Northern Sangre de Cristo Mountains Above 11000 Feet- Southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains Between 7500 and 11000 Feet- Southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains Above 11000 Feet- Northwestern Fremont County Above 8500 Feet- Western/Central Fremont County Below 8500 Feet- Wet Mountain Valley Below 8500 Feet- Wet Mountains between 6300 and 10000 Feet- Wet Mountains Above 10000 Feet- Teller County/Rampart Range Above 7500 Feet/Pikes Peak Between 7500 And 11000 Feet-Pikes Peak Above 11000 Feet- Canon City Vicinity/Eastern Fremont County- Northern El Paso County/Monument Ridge/Rampart Range Below 7500 Feet- Colorado Springs Vicinity/Southern El Paso County/Rampart Range Below 7400 Feet-Pueblo Vicinity/Pueblo County Below 6300 Feet- Walsenburg Vicinity/Upper Huerfano River Basin Below 7500 Feet- Trinidad Vicinity/Western Las Animas County Below 7500 Feet- Crowley County-La Junta Vicinity/Otero County- Eastern Las Animas County-Western Kiowa County- Eastern Kiowa County-Las Animas Vicinity/Bent County- Lamar Vicinity/Prowers County-Springfield Vicinity/Baca County- 1102 AM MDT Mon Aug 8 2022 This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of central...east central...south central and southeast Colorado. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight Thunderstorms are expected to occur across the region this afternoon and evening. Although all areas will see a chance of storms, the best coverage and heaviest rainfall is expected to occur along the Colorado and New Mexico border, especially across the Raton Mesa region. Similar to the last several days, sufficient monsoon moisture is over the region, and locally heavy rains will be possible, which could result in flash flooding over areas with saturated soil conditions, urban areas, or burn scars. The best chance of flash flooding will occur across the Spring Burn scar. The primary threat with thunderstorms today will be locally heavy rain, wind gusts to 45 to 55 mph and cloud to ground lightning. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday The coverage of rain showers and thunderstorms is expected to lessen for the rest of the week and into the weekend. Scattered to numerous thunderstorms will remain possible Tuesday through Sunday over the mountains and mountain valleys, with more isolated storm activity across the eastern plains, particularly along the I-25 Corridor. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Weather conditions that meet reporting criteria for spotters will be possible over much of the region, especially over the mountains and along the Colorado and New Mexico border regions. 31/31
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 8, 8:55 AM MDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
855 AM MDT MON AUG 8 2022
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1000 PM FLASH FLOOD 1 SSE PUEBLO WEST 38.30N 104.75W
08/07/2022 PUEBLO CO PUBLIC
AROUND 100-FOOT WIDE CHANNEL OF FLOWING
WATER THROUGH PROPERTIES -- AT LEAST SEVERAL
INCHES DEEP -- CREATED BY HEAVY RAIN FROM
THUNDERSTORMS YESTERDAY EVENING.
&&The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 6:01 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Saguache | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 6:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 24 min |
| Aug 7, 6:22 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Custer | 23 min |
| Aug 7, 6:32 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Custer, Saguache | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 6:50 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Fremont | 25 min |
| Aug 7, 7:01 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Teller | 44 min |
| Aug 7, 7:06 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Teller | 4 hr |
| Aug 7, 7:12 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Fremont | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 7:26 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Custer | 49 min |
| Aug 7, 7:51 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Custer, Fremont | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 8:05 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Fremont | 25 min |
| Aug 7, 8:10 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Teller | 35 min |
| Aug 7, 8:26 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | El Paso | 2 hr |
| Aug 7, 8:40 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Fremont, Pueblo | 2 hr |
| Aug 7, 9:00 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Pueblo | 45 min |
| Aug 7, 9:04 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 4 hr |
| Aug 7, 11:34 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | El Paso | 41 min |
| Aug 8, 2:48 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Costilla, Huerfano | 2 hr |
| Aug 8, 2:58 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | 32 min | |
| Aug 8, 3:50 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | 40 min | |
| Aug 8, 3:56 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Fremont, Teller | 100 min |
| Aug 8, 4:45 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Baca | 30 min |
| Aug 8, 4:59 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Custer | 31 min |
| Aug 8, 5:20 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Custer | 40 min |
| Aug 8, 5:30 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Custer | 2 hr |
| Aug 8, 5:44 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Conejos | 31 min |
Nearby
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.