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River Flood Watch 2, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 11, 2024Otero County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this river flood watch at Jun 11, 2024, 9:14 AM MDT for Otero County, Colorado. It took effect at Jun 12, 2024, 6:00 AM MDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 11, 2024, 9:14 AM MDT (15:14 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 12, 2024, 6:00 AM MDT
Expired: Jun 11, 2024, 8:08 PM MDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Otero County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Arkansas River at La Junta (LXHC2).

Action stage: 10 ft
Minor stage: 11 ft
Moderate stage: 13 ft
Major stage: 15 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07123000, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river 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 river flood watch went out at Jun 11, 5:30 AM MDT, 3 hours 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 5:30 AM MDT, 3 hours 44 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 11, 2:45 AM MDT, 6 hours 29 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 10, 7:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Costilla	30 min
Jun 10, 7:19 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Costilla	26 min
Jun 11, 2:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	35 min
Jun 11, 2:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	31 min
Jun 11, 3:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	26 min
Jun 11, 4:07 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	23 min
Jun 11, 4:24 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	36 min
Jun 11, 4:33 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	27 min
Jun 11, 4:40 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Custer	35 min
Jun 11, 4:54 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	36 min
Jun 11, 5:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Pueblo	28 min
Jun 11, 5:10 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Custer	35 min
Jun 11, 5:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	El Paso, Pueblo	31 min
Jun 11, 5:52 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	El Paso, Pueblo	2 hr
Jun 11, 5:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	31 min

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.