Issue Date: Sunday, August 5th, 2018
Issue Time: 9:30 AM MDT
Summary:
A plume of moisture transported by the building upper-level ridge fueled scattered showers/thunderstorms across Colorado yesterday, mainly during the afternoon and evening hours. Most of the activity was garden variety, producing light rainfall and gusty winds, while a couple of stronger storms produced periods of moderate rainfall and strong winds. Due to the decent wind speeds aloft, showers/storms moved at a good clip towards the east, and it was a good day of wetting rains with no flash flooding concerns. Overnight, a secondary disturbance aloft moved across the region, kicking off another round of scattered showers/weak thunderstorms, mainly along and north of I-70. As far as storm reports are concerned, the following are the thunderstorm observations of note submitted to the National Weather Service:
60 mph (estimated) thunderstorm wind gust: 1 mile W of Firestone (Weld County)
59 mph thunderstorm wind gust: 1 mile N of Buckley AFB (Arapahoe County)
58 mph thunderstorm wind gust: 2 miles E of Loveland (Larimer County)
54 mph thunderstorm wind gust: 5 miles NW of Mack (Mesa County)
0.7 inches of heavy rainfall: 6 miles ESE of Oak Creek (Routt County)
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