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Flood Watch 4, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flood watch at Aug 12, 2024, 9:36 AM MDT for 9 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Aug 12, 2024, 3:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 12, 2024, 9:36 AM MDT (15:36 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 12, 2024, 3:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2024, 12:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Bent County, CO, Crowley County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Fremont County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Teller County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 358 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1468 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -187 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 877 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 12, 3:50 AM MDT, 5 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 12, 3:50 AM MDT, 5 hours 46 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 6:55 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | El Paso | 35 min |
| Aug 11, 9:41 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Kiowa | 34 min |
| Aug 11, 10:12 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Prowers | 48 min |
| Aug 11, 10:56 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Prowers | 34 min |
| Aug 12, 1:55 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Prowers | 50 min |
| Aug 12, 1:34 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Conejos | 26 min |
| Aug 12, 2:09 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Costilla | 36 min |
| Aug 12, 2:16 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | El Paso | 29 min |
| Aug 12, 2:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 36 min |
| Aug 12, 2:55 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Costilla | 35 min |
| Aug 12, 3:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 47 min |
| Aug 12, 3:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 35 min |
| Aug 12, 3:48 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent | 27 min |
| Aug 12, 3:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 33 min |
| Aug 12, 4:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 35 min |
| Aug 12, 4:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 33 min |
| Aug 12, 4:14 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 31 min |
| Aug 12, 4:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 26 min |
| Aug 12, 4:38 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent | 52 min |
| Aug 12, 4:39 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Bent | 3 hr |
| Aug 12, 4:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 32 min |
| Aug 12, 4:49 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent, Las Animas, Otero | 3 hr |
| Aug 12, 4:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent, Las Animas | 25 min |
| Aug 12, 5:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent | 32 min |
| Aug 12, 5:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent | 33 min |
| Aug 12, 5:48 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 27 min |
| Aug 12, 5:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, Otero | 32 min |
Nearby
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.