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Flash Flood Watch 19, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this flash flood watch at Aug 30, 2026, 10:57 PM MDT for Chaffee County, Lake County, Saguache County, Colorado. It took effect at Aug 31, 2026, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 30, 2026, 10:57 PM MDT (04:57 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 31, 2026, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2026, 9:01 PM MDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Chaffee County, CO, Lake County, CO, Saguache County, CO
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 173 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash 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 flash flood watch went out at Aug 30, 10:25 PM MDT, 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 10:25 PM MDT, 32 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 30, 6:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Prowers | 25 min |
| Aug 30, 6:36 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Mineral | 24 min |
| Aug 30, 6:39 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Baca | 36 min |
| Aug 30, 6:59 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Mineral | 31 min |
| Aug 30, 7:12 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Baca | 33 min |
| Aug 30, 7:23 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Prowers | 52 min |
| Aug 30, 7:53 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 37 min |
| Aug 30, 8:11 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Prowers | 49 min |
| Aug 30, 10:18 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | El Paso | 42 min |
| Aug 30, 10:24 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent | 36 min |
| Aug 30, 11:16 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Prowers | 44 min |
| Aug 30, 11:22 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent | 38 min |
| Aug 31, 12:00 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent, Kiowa | 45 min |
| Aug 31, 1:37 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Costilla | 23 min |
| Aug 31, 1:39 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Huerfano | 36 min |
| Aug 31, 2:14 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Huerfano | 31 min |
| Aug 31, 2:44 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Huerfano | 31 min |
| Aug 31, 3:07 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 38 min |
| Aug 31, 3:13 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 32 min |
| Aug 31, 3:14 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Huerfano | 31 min |
| Aug 31, 3:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas, Otero | 30 min |
| Aug 31, 3:44 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 31 min |
| Aug 31, 3:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas, Otero | 33 min |
| Aug 31, 4:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, Otero, Pueblo | 28 min |
| Aug 31, 4:22 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 23 min |
| Aug 31, 4:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 30 min |
| Aug 31, 4:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Las Animas, Otero | 24 min |
| Aug 31, 4:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Otero | 33 min |
| Aug 31, 5:00 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 30 min |
| Aug 31, 5:03 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Las Animas, Otero | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 5:03 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent | 27 min |
| Aug 31, 5:07 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Alamosa | 38 min |
| Aug 31, 5:09 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Saguache | 36 min |
| Aug 31, 5:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent, Las Animas | 35 min |
| Aug 31, 5:31 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Costilla | 29 min |
| Aug 31, 5:39 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Baca | 36 min |
| Aug 31, 5:42 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent | 33 min |
| Aug 31, 5:43 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Alamosa | 32 min |
| Aug 31, 5:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent, Las Animas, Prowers | 54 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.