Issue Date: Sunday, September 4th, 2016
Issue Time: 9:00AM MDT
Summary
Scattered to widespread thunderstorms again dotted mainly northern Colorado on the first day of the Labor Day weekend as a disturbance raced across the state. While rainfall rates were fortunately not nearly as severe as the Friday storms, some still managed to pack a punch. Hourly rain rates up to 1.5 inches were seen across the Northeast Plains, Palmer Ridge and Southeast Plains. The rainfall was surprisingly not the most impressive aspect of the storms; that honor went to hail. Many hail reports exceeding 1.0 inch were received from several storm cells. By far the most impressive reports were of 2 to 3 inch hail being reported with a tornado-warned cell in Akron County shortly before sunset. Damage to roofs and vehicles was reported. Additional severe storms were seen farther south along the Kansas border with hail up to 1.25 inches.
Over the western slope, showers and a few storms raced across the landscape but moved too fast to cause flooding concerns. Instead, 0.25 to 0.6 inches of beneficial rainfall was observed mainly across central and northern areas in better proximity to yesterday’s disturbance.
No official flood reports were received as of this morning. For rainfall estimates specific to your area, check out our Storm Total Precipitation map below.
