Issue Date: Thursday, June 2nd, 2016
Issue Time: 9:05AM MDT
It took a bit longer than normal for thunderstorm activity to get going in earnest on Wednesday, with early afternoon activity limited to the San Juans and San Luis Valley zones. But by early evening, several clusters of stronger storms were found in the Northeast Plains, Front Range, Southeast Mountains and Raton Ridge zones. Most of the storms were generally benign and had more bark than bite. However, a few of the strongest cells produced noteworthy rain amounts exceeding 1.0 inch per hour. The highest 24-hour totals, per this morning’s CoCoRaHS reports, are Akron (Washington County) with 1.98, Illiff (Logan County) with 1.09 and Rye (Pueblo County) with 1.02 inches. Numerous other locations received between 0.25 and 0.5 inches of rainfall. On an interesting side note, even one of the climatologically driest locations in the state, the Great Sand Dunes, managed to pick up about 0.5 inches!
No flooding was reported on Wednesday, but an Areal Flood Advisory was issued for Morgan County around midnight, suggesting at least some field flooding was possible. For specific rainfall estimates in your area, please check our STP map below.
Switching topics, below is the latest statewide snow water equivalent map. Snowmelt is progressing gradually but is expected to ramp up with the coming warm weather. However, with more than half of the snow pack already gone and generally calm weather in the near-term, we expect the snowmelt season to finish in an orderly fashion, void of major flooding concerns.
