Issue Date: Tuesday, May 26th, 2015
Issue Time: 9:00 AM MDT
Summary:
FLOOD WARNINGS CONTINUE FOR PORTIONS OF THE CACHE LA POUDRE, SOUTH PLATTE, AND ARKANSAS RIVERS.
Yesterday featured a downtick in thunderstorm activity allowing for most people to get outside and enjoy the holiday. Afternoon/evening showers and thunderstorms provided some late day fireworks with lightning and some brief moderate-to-heavy rain, but nothing that caused flash flooding issues. One afternoon thunderstorm, 4 miles NE of Beulah (Pueblo County), provided the only severe report of the day with 1 inch hail. Sub-severe, quarter-inch hail fell in Cedaredge (Delta County), covering the ground 1.5 inches of accumulating hail.
The strongest thunderstorm of the day rumbled across central portions of the Urban Corridor during the evening, producing the highest observed rainfall totals of the day. From CoCoRaHS observers:
Arapahoe County: 1.31 inches
Jefferson County: 1.18 inches
Douglas County: 0.84 inches
Denver County: 0.84 inches
Boulder County: 0.55 inches
No flash flooding occurred yesterday. Be sure to check out the radar-estimated rainfall map below.
