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Flash Flood Watch 1, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 7, 202310 counties in Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood watch at Jun 7, 2023, 9:00 AM MDT for 10 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Jun 7, 2023, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 7, 2023, 9:00 AM MDT (15:00 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 7, 2023, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired: Jun 7, 2023, 6:16 PM MDT
In force: 6 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, Lake County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Saguache County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 291 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: 2059 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 88 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 flash 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 flash flood watch went out at Jun 7, 3:43 AM MDT, 5 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 3:43 AM MDT, 5 hours 17 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 6, 6:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	43 min
Jun 6, 6:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Crowley	37 min
Jun 6, 6:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	33 min
Jun 6, 7:03 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Crowley	27 min
Jun 6, 7:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Otero	61 min
Jun 6, 9:36 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	24 min
Jun 7, 12:20 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	40 min
Jun 7, 12:57 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	48 min
Jun 7, 1:26 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	El Paso	109 min
Jun 7, 1:38 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	37 min
Jun 7, 2:39 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	36 min
Jun 7, 2:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	41 min
Jun 7, 3:20 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	40 min
Jun 7, 3:35 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	40 min
Jun 7, 4:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	41 min
Jun 7, 4:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	29 min

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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.