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 19, 1:46 PM MST, 2 hours 44 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO 246 PM MDT SAT JUL 19 2003 SHORT TERM DISCUSSION...TONIGHT AND SUNDAY. ...WIDESPREAD THUNDERSHOWERS ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST/CENTRAL MOUNTAINS... ...POTENTIAL FOR THUNDERSHOWERS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ALL AREAS THIS EVENING... THE 1ST LIGHTNING STRIKE OF THE DAY WAS NOTED IN THE SAN JUANS SHORTLY BEFORE NOON...AND NOW ACTIVITY HAS BECOME FAIRLY WIDESPREAD ACROSS THE SAN JUANS...LA GARITAS...SOUTHERN SAWATCH RANGE...CHAFFEE COUNTY...WESTERN FREMONT COUNTY...AND PARTS OF THE SANGRE DE CRISTOS. ACTIVITY SHOULD CONTINUE THIS EVENING...SPREADING GRADUALLY EASTWARD WITH TIME...UNDER LIGHT NORTHWEST STEERING WINDS ALOFT. PRECIPITABLE WATERS ARE UP...WAY UP ON THE EASTERN PLAINS... RANGING FROM ABOUT .50-.75 INCHES ACROSS WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA (SAN JUANS/LA GARITAS/SAWATCH RANGE/SAN LUIS AND UPPER ARKANSAS VALLEYS) TO ABOUT 1.00-1.25 INCHES ACROSS THE EASTERN PORTIONS (THE PLAINS). THESE AMOUNTS ARE PRETTY IMPRESSIVE. WHATS ALSO IMPRESSIVE ARE THE SURFACE DEWPOINTS ON THE PLAINS...WITH READINGS IN THE 50S TO LOWER 60S. SHOULD BE ADEQUATE MOISTURE FOR SOME HEAVY RAINERS TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY WITH LIGHT STEERING WINDS. ALTHOUGH SHEAR IS NOT FAVORABLE...THE PONTENTIAL EXISTS FOR 1 OR 2 PULSE SEVERE STORMS THIS EVENING AS WELL...DUE TO POCKETS OF HIGH CAPE AND/OR BOUNDARY INTERSECTIONS. MAIN THREAT...LARGE HAIL TO ABOUT 1 INCH IN DIAMETER. LAST EVENING...BOU OFFICE HAD SOME FLASH FLOOD THREAT TO DEAL WITH...AND ISSUED AT LEAST A COUPLE OF FFWS. TONIGHT...WE MAY ME IN THE ACTION...DEPENDING ON MOVEMENT... INTENSITY...LOCATION OF STORM CELLS THAT DEVELOP THIS EVENING. WILL HAVE TO MONITOR CLOSELY. SO FAR...USGS MILLION FIRE DCPS NEAR SOUTH FORK HAVE ONLY NOTED A FEW HUNDRETHS OF AN INCH OF RAIN (.08 INCHES AT M-3 GAGE AND.02 INCHES AT M-1 GAGE). HOWEVER...A MORE CONCENTRATED CELL IS TRACKING IN THE DIRECTION OF THE BURN SCAR SO WILL HAVE TO MONITOR CLOSELY OVER THE NEXT COUPLE HOURS. ACTIVITY MAY BE A LITTLE SLOW TO DEVELOP OUT ON THE PLAINS EAST OF THE I-25 CORRIDOR UNTIL SOME BOUNDARIES WORK OUT THAT WAY AND THE CAP WEAKENS FURTHER LATER THIS EVENING. MUCH THE SAME STORY FOR TOMORROW...ALTHOUGH MOISTURE DOESNT LOOK QUITE AS IMPRESSIVE. SHOULD STILL BE AMPLE MOISTURE FOR AT LEAST SCATTERED ACTIVITY ALL AREAS...ESPECIALLY IN AND NEAR THE MOUNTAINS. WILL CONTINUE IN GRIDS WITH SCATTERED POPS. POTENTIAL FOR LOCALLY HEAVY RAINERS WILL CONTINUE WITH A CONTINUATION OF LIGHT STEERING WINDS AND SUFFICIENT MOISTURE AROUND...ESPECIALLY EASTERN AREAS FROM THE SOUTHERN FRONT RANGES...EAST ACROSS THE PLAINS. TEMPS WILL CONTINUE TO REFLECT THE COOLING TREND THAT HAS FINALLY STARTED TO BE NOTICED (A LITTLE) TODAY. LW LONG TERM DISCUSSION...SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY. MON/TUES...NORTHEAST SURFACE FLOW CONTINUES WITH HIGH PRESSURE MOVING INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS. LAPSE RATES DROP A TOUCH AND AVN GIVING LIS OF 0. LOOKS LIKE MOST LOW LEVEL MOISTURE PROGGED TO PUSH SOUTH OF THE AREA BY AFTERNOON. THINK WILL SEE ONLY ISOLATED ACTIVITY IN AND NEAR MTNS...WITH LESS CHANCES FAR EAST PLAINS. LEFT IN FOR CONSISTENCY. TUESDAY THE SURFACE HIGH SHIFTS INTO IOWA... NORTHEAST/UPSLOPE SURFACE FLOW CONTINUES...WITH UPPER FLOW NEARLY DUE NORTH TO KEEP MOST PRECIP IN AND NR MTNS ONCE AGAIN. A BIT MORE UNSTABLE THIS DAY. WAS TEMPTED TO REMOVE EASTERN POPS...BUT WILL LEAVE FOR NOW WITH BOUNDARY LINGERING NEAR KS/CO BORDER. WED...L/W TROF PROGRESSES EAST. ELONGATED HIGH SHIFTS FROM GREAT LAKES TO MISSOURI...LEAVING AREA UNDER INFLUENCE OF WEAK LEE TROF. LIS -2/-4 THIS DAY...WITH LAPSE RATES BACK UP IN THE 8C/KM RANGE. 700 MB TEMPS 12-16C. CURRENT GRIDS LOOK GOOD. THURS THRU SAT...UPPER TROF PASSES TO OUR NORTH. TEMPS CLIMB AGAIN WITH 700 MB TEMPS 14-18C. TRAILING EDGE OF UPPER TROF BRINGS IN BOUNDARY EARLY FRIDAY...WHICH SHOULD COOL TEMPS A FEW DEGREES THIS DAY. LAPSE RATES NOT GREAT...BUT STILL EXPECT MTN CONVECTION. UPSLOPE REMAINS BEHIND FROPA FROM FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY. MADE ONLY A FEW TWEAKS TO POP/SKY/TEMP GRIDS. KC .PUB...NONE.
COZ058>089-093>099-201250- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 700 AM MDT SAT JUL 19 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. INCREASED ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE IN THE WAKE OF A STRONG BOUNDARY THAT PUSHED INTO SOUTHEAST COLORADO EARLY THIS MORNING COMBINING WITH THE DAILY HEATING CYCLE MEANS THAT ONE OR TWO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE FROM LATER THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING FROM THE EASTERN SLOPES OF THE FRONT RANGE INTO THE SOUTHEAST PLAINS. IN ADDITION...PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES ARE PROJECTED TO RUN OVER 1 INCH THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AND THE POSSIBILITY EXISTS THAT LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OCCUR LATER THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT... ESPECIALLY FROM THE EASTERN SLOPES OF THE EASTERN MOUNTAINS INTO THE I-25 CORRIDOR. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE WELL INTO THE EVENING. THE MOST LIKELY THREAT FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP EACH AFTERNOON AND EVENING MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. MOST OF THAT ACTIVITY WILL BE OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN AND ADJACENT PLAINS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER CONDITIONS THAT MEET REPORTING CRITERIA FOR SPOTTERS MAY BE LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.WEATHER CONDITIONS THAT MEET REPORTING CRITERIA FOR SPOTTERS WILL BE POSSIBLE LATER THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY FROM THE EASTERN SLOPES OF THE EASTERN MOUNTAINS INTO THE EASTERN PLAINS
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 97 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:30 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Trail Creek Road was washed out in areas and impassable due to flash flood.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Colorado in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Colorado, July 2003
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