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Flood Watch 8, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 20, 20237 counties in Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flood watch at Jul 20, 2023, 2:45 AM MDT for 7 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Jul 20, 2023, 2:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 20, 2023, 2:45 AM MDT (08:45 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 20, 2023, 2:00 PM MDT
Expired: Jul 21, 2023, 2:00 AM MDT
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Flood severity: None

Counties Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 289 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: 1626 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -215 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1616 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 169 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -3.0

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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 Jul 19, 11:27 PM MDT, 3 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 11:27 PM MDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 19, 11:03 PM MDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 19, 8:53 PM MDT, 5 hours 52 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 19, 9:02 PM MDT, 5 hours 43 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 19, 9:43 PM MDT, 5 hours 2 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
Jul 19, 6:05 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Las Animas, Otero, Pueblo	3 hr
Jul 19, 6:14 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Bent, Las Animas, Otero	3 hr
Jul 19, 6:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Otero	31 min
Jul 19, 6:17 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	28 min
Jul 19, 6:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	36 min
Jul 19, 6:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	46 min
Jul 19, 6:40 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Bent, Las Animas	3 hr
Jul 19, 6:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Otero	31 min
Jul 19, 7:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	37 min
Jul 19, 7:24 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Baca, Bent, Prowers	3 hr
Jul 19, 8:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Chaffee	37 min
Jul 19, 9:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	43 min
Jul 19, 9:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	31 min
Jul 19, 9:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	32 min
Jul 20, 1:03 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	27 min
Jul 20, 1:07 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Saguache	23 min
Jul 20, 1:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Teller	33 min
Jul 20, 1:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	33 min
Jul 20, 1:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Teller	28 min
Jul 20, 1:58 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	El Paso, Teller	12 min
Jul 20, 2:03 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	27 min
Jul 20, 2:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	31 min
Jul 20, 2:20 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Saguache	25 min
Jul 20, 2:24 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	36 min
Jul 20, 2:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	35 min
Jul 20, 2:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	El Paso	35 min
Jul 20, 2:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	33 min
Jul 20, 2:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	31 min
Jul 20, 3:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	30 min
Jul 20, 3:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	El Paso	52 min
Jul 20, 3:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Fremont	28 min
Jul 20, 3:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	23 min
Jul 20, 3:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	24 min
Jul 20, 3:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas	34 min
Jul 20, 3:32 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	El Paso	2 hr
Jul 20, 3:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Fremont	32 min
Jul 20, 3:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	El Paso	31 min
Jul 20, 3:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas, Pueblo	28 min
Jul 20, 3:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	25 min
Jul 20, 4:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	30 min
Jul 20, 4:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Fremont	26 min
Jul 20, 4:07 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Costilla	23 min
Jul 20, 4:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Otero, Pueblo	19 min
Jul 20, 4:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	El Paso	8 min
Jul 20, 4:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Fremont, Pueblo	32 min
Jul 20, 4:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	31 min
Jul 20, 4:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Otero, Pueblo	29 min
Jul 20, 4:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Crowley, Kiowa	47 min
Jul 20, 4:50 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	25 min
Jul 20, 4:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero	22 min
Jul 20, 4:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Fremont, Pueblo	32 min
Jul 20, 5:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Otero	49 min
Jul 20, 5:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Crowley, El Paso, Pueblo	32 min
Jul 20, 5:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero	28 min
Jul 20, 5:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Otero	27 min
Jul 20, 5:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Pueblo	25 min
Jul 20, 5:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero	51 min
Jul 20, 5:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley	32 min
Jul 20, 5:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Otero	32 min
Jul 20, 5:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley	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.