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Flood Watch 3, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 29, 20254 counties in Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flood watch at Jul 29, 2025, 10:13 AM MDT for 4 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Jul 29, 2025, 1:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 29, 2025, 10:13 AM MDT (16:13 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 29, 2025, 1:00 PM MDT
Expired: Jul 29, 2025, 8:10 PM MDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Flood severity: None

Counties El Paso County, CO, Fremont County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Teller County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:13 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 447 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: 121 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -251 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2095 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.2

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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 29, 5:20 AM MDT, 4 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 5:20 AM MDT, 4 hours 53 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 29, 1:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Prowers	35 min
Jul 29, 1:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Prowers	46 min
Jul 29, 1:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	31 min
Jul 29, 2:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	47 min
Jul 29, 2:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	38 min
Jul 29, 2:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	44 min
Jul 29, 2:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Prowers	41 min
Jul 29, 2:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	33 min
Jul 29, 2:46 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	El Paso	3 hr
Jul 29, 2:56 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Pueblo	94 min
Jul 29, 2:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	31 min
Jul 29, 3:05 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	25 min
Jul 29, 3:06 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas	3 hr
Jul 29, 3:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	34 min
Jul 29, 3:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	14 min
Jul 29, 3:20 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Crowley	25 min
Jul 29, 3:22 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Pueblo	3 hr
Jul 29, 3:24 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Prowers	51 min
Jul 29, 3:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	32 min
Jul 29, 3:40 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	35 min
Jul 29, 3:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	27 min
Jul 29, 3:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	39 min
Jul 29, 3:56 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Pueblo	3 hr
Jul 29, 4:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, El Paso, Pueblo	43 min
Jul 29, 4:07 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	53 min
Jul 29, 4:10 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Pueblo	3 hr
Jul 29, 4:19 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Prowers	26 min
Jul 29, 4:21 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Otero	39 min
Jul 29, 4:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Custer	33 min
Jul 29, 4:47 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Custer, Pueblo	3 hr
Jul 29, 4:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Crowley	26 min
Jul 29, 5:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	30 min
Jul 29, 5:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Otero	30 min
Jul 29, 5:20 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Crowley	25 min
Jul 29, 5:33 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Pueblo	2 hr
Jul 29, 5:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	28 min
Jul 29, 5:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	22 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.