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Flood Watch 7, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 14, 202212 counties in Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flood watch at Aug 14, 2022, 1:24 PM MDT for 12 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Aug 15, 2022, 1:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 14, 2022, 1:24 PM MDT (19:24 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 15, 2022, 1:00 PM MDT
Expired
Aug 16, 2022, 12:00 AM MDT
In force
11 hr
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Flood severity
None

Counties Alamosa County, CO, Chaffee County, CO, Costilla County, CO, Custer County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Fremont County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Lake County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Saguache County, CO, Teller County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:26 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

Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 2022-08-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 2022-08-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-240 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2206 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
60 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 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 14, 11:29 AM MDT, 1 hour 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 11:29 AM MDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 13, 6:03 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBChaffee42 min
Aug 13, 6:05 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBTeller40 min
Aug 13, 6:47 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBTeller28 min
Aug 13, 7:40 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBTeller35 min
Aug 14, 2:25 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBCostilla35 min
Aug 14, 2:34 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBTeller26 min
Aug 14, 3:12 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBTeller33 min
Aug 14, 3:30 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBEl Paso30 min
Aug 14, 3:33 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBEl Paso27 min
Aug 14, 4:02 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBEl Paso28 min
Aug 14, 4:29 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBPueblo31 min
Aug 14, 4:31 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBElbert29 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.