Issue Date: Friday, May 15th, 2015
Issue Time: 9:00 AM MDT
Summary:
A digging trough across the West Coast sent a plume of moisture and broad-scale lift spreading over Colorado yesterday, providing fuel for another bout with showers and thunderstorms. Scattered showers are still ongoing across the western half of the state at this time. Most of the moisture available was in the mid- and upper-levels, so rainfall was not as heavy as it could have been; the vast majority of CoCoRaHS observations were less than 0.2 inches. The strongest storms produced more wind than rain, and a few provided quite the lightning show, as well. For an overview of the past 24-hours of rainfall, be sure check out the Storm Total Precipitation map below.
The only storm report issued to the National Weather Service was for 0.75 inch hail, reported 4 miles NNW of Colorado Springs (El Paso County).
No flash flooding occurred yesterday.
