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Flood Watch 6, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 21, 2023El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flood watch at Jun 21, 2023, 8:50 AM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It took effect at Jun 21, 2023, 6:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 21, 2023, 8:50 AM MDT (14:50 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 21, 2023, 6:00 PM MDT
Expired: Jun 22, 2023, 3:00 AM MDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Flood severity: None

County El Paso County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:54 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, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 345 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: 3430 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 162 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 Jun 21, 4:30 AM MDT, 4 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 4:30 AM MDT, 4 hours 20 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 21, 2:13 PM MDT	River Flood Watch	PUB	El Paso	25 hr
Jun 21, 2:13 PM MDT	River Flood Watch	PUB	El Paso	34 hr
Jun 21, 2:13 PM MDT	River Flood Watch	PUB	Pueblo	35 hr
Jun 21, 2:39 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	36 min
Jun 21, 2:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	32 min
Jun 21, 3:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	37 min
Jun 21, 3:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	31 min
Jun 21, 3:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	El Paso	34 min
Jun 21, 3:44 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	El Paso	3 hr
Jun 21, 3:56 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	49 min
Jun 21, 4:06 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	39 min
Jun 21, 4:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	45 min
Jun 21, 4:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	14 min
Jun 21, 4:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	39 min
Jun 21, 4:53 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	El Paso	37 min
Jun 21, 4:56 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Douglas	34 min
Jun 21, 5:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	13 min
Jun 21, 5:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	El Paso	63 min
Jun 21, 5:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa	25 min
Jun 21, 5:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Bent	31 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.