1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jul 6, 1:28 PM MST, 4 hours 32 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO COLORADO 228 PM MDT SAT JUL 6 2002 EXTENT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT THE CONCERN...BEFORE TRANSITION TO DRIER AND WARMER WX BEGINS SUNDAY. CURRENTLY: CONVECTION OFF TO A SLIGHTLY SLOWER START TODAY AS RAIN- COOLED AIR OVER THE AREA HAS TAKEN TIME TO DESTABILIZE. ELONGATED UPPER SHEAR AXIS ACROSS ERN CO...WITH WEAK CIRCULATION OVER NERN CORNER OF CO AND FAIRLY WELL DEFINED UPPER LOW OVER WRN TX/ERN NM. APPEARS THERE ARE PLENTY OF MESOSCALE BOUNDARIES ACROSS THE PLAINS TO FOCUS CONVECTION LATER THIS AFTERNOON AS AIR MASS DESTABILIZES. TONIGHT...CONTINUED THE BROAD BRUSH OF SCT -TSRA WELL INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS MOST SECTIONS...THOUGH ACTIVITY OVER THE SWRN MTNS AND VALLEYS SHOULD DIE FAIRLY QUICKLY AFTER SUNSET AS MOISTURE ISNT QUITE AS DEEP HERE AS FARTHER EAST. HARD TO PIN DOWN WHICH AREAS OVER THE PLAINS WILL SEE HEAVY RAINFALL...AS MESOSCALE FEATURES AND OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES WILL ULTIMATELY DETERMINE WHERE STORMS DEVELOP. VERY SLOW STORM MOTIONS ONCE AGAIN...AND AREAS THAT RECEIVED HEAVY RAIN LAST NIGHT...I.E. EL PASO/BACA/LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES NEED TO BE WATCHED. SUNDAY/SUNDAY NIGHT...UPPER HIGH CONTINUES TO BUILD OVER THE CENTRAL ROCKIES AS SHEAR AXIS OVER ERN CO WEAKENS AND UPPER LOW OVER NM SLOWLY FILLS. STILL ENOUGH MOISTURE TO FIRE AFTERNOON AND EVENING CONVECTION MOST AREAS...THOUGH COVERAGE WILL BE FAIRLY SPARSE AS MID AND UPPER LEVELS WARM. SUSPECT CONVECTION WILL QUICKLY END AFTER SUNSET WITH LACK OF UPPER SUPPORT. MAIN CHANGE TO CURRENT GRIDS WAS TO CUT BACK CONVECTIVE POPS TO LOW CHC/SLIGHT CHC MANY AREAS. MAX TEMPS BEGIN TO RESPOND TO RISING HEIGHTS...WITH WARMER FWC NUMBERS MORE REASONABLE. MONDAY...CONTINUED WARMER AND DRIER...THOUGH AGAIN MOISTURE TRAPPED UNDER THE RIDGE MAY FIRE A FEW AFTERNOON -TSRA OVER MAINLY HIGHER TERRAIN. CUT BACK POPS TO SLIGHT CHANCES MOST AREAS...THOUGH DIDNT ELIMINATE ENTIRELY. WARMED UP MAX TEMP GRIDS SLIGHTLY...IN LINE WITH GUIDANCE NUMBERS. TUES-SAT...LARGE UPPER RIDGE TO CONTINUE OVER THE CENTRAL ROCKIES... WHICH WILL TEND TO SUPPRESS MOST CONVECTION. CONTINUED THE GENERIC SUMMERTIME FORECAST OF NEAR TO SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL TEMPS AND ISOLATED AFTERNOON AND EVENING CONVECTION EACH DAY. AVN SHOWS RIDGE AMPLIFYING ENOUGH TO ALLOW A WEAK FRONT TO DROP SOUTH ALONG THE ERN PLAINS WED...WHICH MAY SERVE TO INCREASE CONVECTION SOMEWHAT BY MIDWEEK. DOESNT APPEAR TO BE MUCH COOLING WITH THIS SYSTEM...SO WILL MAINTAIN WARM TO HOT TEMPS EACH DAY. .PUB...NONE. PETERSEN
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Rainfall of 1 to 3 inches in a short time frame caused flooding of irrigation and other ditches as well as areas of deep water in parking lots in the vicinity of Walsenburg.
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