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Flood Watch 1, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 21, 2024Conejos County, Mineral County, Rio Grande County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flood watch at Jun 21, 2024, 3:31 AM MDT for Conejos County, Mineral County, Rio Grande County, Colorado. It took effect at Jun 21, 2024, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 21, 2024, 3:31 AM MDT (09:31 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 21, 2024, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired: Jun 21, 2024, 9:22 PM MDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Flood severity: None

Counties Conejos County, CO, Mineral County, CO, Rio Grande County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 230 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 271 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: 363 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2529 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 80 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 20, 11:13 PM MDT, 4 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 11:13 PM MDT, 4 hours 18 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, 11:38 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Chaffee	52 min
Jun 21, 12:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Saguache	29 min
Jun 21, 12:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	32 min
Jun 21, 12:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	41 min
Jun 21, 1:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Alamosa	44 min
Jun 21, 1:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Alamosa	44 min
Jun 21, 2:09 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Alamosa	36 min
Jun 21, 2:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Alamosa, Rio Grande	25 min
Jun 21, 2:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Alamosa	41 min
Jun 21, 2:50 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Mineral	40 min
Jun 21, 3:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	26 min
Jun 21, 3:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Saguache	37 min
Jun 21, 3:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Mineral	43 min
Jun 21, 3:57 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Alamosa	48 min
Jun 21, 4:22 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Custer	38 min
Jun 21, 4:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Alamosa, Costilla, Huerfano, Saguache	35 min
Jun 21, 4:55 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Otero	35 min
Jun 21, 5:09 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Rio Grande	36 min
Jun 21, 5:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Alamosa	27 min
Jun 21, 5:32 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Otero	43 min
Jun 21, 5:52 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Alamosa	38 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.