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Flash Flood — Kiowa, CO

Jun 17, 2019

A very active severe weather day across portions of the eastern Colorado plains on June 17th. Several supercells developed in Kiowa County and remained nearly stationary producing areas of flash flooding and tornadoes with large hail. ||Farther south, large hail was reported near Pueblo and Pinon. Largest hail reported was tennis ball size right before the storm hit downtown Pueblo. Winds gusted to near 70 MPH with small hail at the Pueblo County Memorial Airport, just east of the NWS Pueblo for

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 838793). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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