{"id":10720,"date":"2019-09-06T10:11:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T16:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coloradofloodthreat.com\/?p=10720"},"modified":"2019-09-07T07:39:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T13:39:27","slug":"spm-09-06-2019-rinse-and-repeat-with-garden-variety-showers-and-thunderstorms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/?p=10720","title":{"rendered":"SPM 09-06-2019: Rinse and Repeat with Garden Variety Showers and Thunderstorms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Issue Date: Friday, September 6th, 2019
\nIssue Time: 10:15AM MDT<\/p>\n

Summary:<\/h3>\n

Similar set up to Wednesday on Thursday with a shortwave<\/span> helping produce more widespread<\/span> showers over the mountains during the afternoon. As storms moved off the mountains to the northeast, they became capped<\/span> over the eastern plains. There was some better moisture in the adjacent plains for heavier rainfall, but coverage dropped off. The strongest Severe Thunderstorm<\/span> storm of the day was over Weld County where MetStrom bias corrected (not shown below due to errors in yesterday’s QPE<\/span>) had 1-hour rain rates around 1.5 inches. The Boulder Radar was out, but the Cheyenne radar wasn’t too far from the storms, so totals around 1.5 inches seems about right near Grover. Over the mountains, the highest totals were along the Continental Divide<\/span> in Gunnison\/Chaffee Counties. Totals were estimated at just over an inch with a RAWS site at Huntsman Mesa recording 0.25 inches. Two nearby SNOTEL states recorded 0.3 inches (Sargents Mesa and Porphyry Creek). Flooding was not reported.<\/p>\n

The drought situation is worsening over western Colorado and especially over southwest Colorado (Dolores, Montezuma, La Plata Counties). Almost all of the counties in the Northwest\/Southwest Slope, Grand Valley and Northern Mountains are now Abnormally Dry (D0 category). The area size of the D0-D1 drought has increased 21% from the last map release on August 27th. That is now a total of 41% of the state’s area. The area size of the Moderate Drought (D1 category) has increased by 1.5% since the last map release. Hopefully the wetting rains this weekend will start to chip away at the dry conditions.<\/p>\n

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To see estimated precipitation totals over your neighborhood on Thursday, scroll down to the State Precipitation Map below.<\/p>\n

Click Here For Map Overview<\/h4>
\nThe map below shows radar-estimated, rainfall gage-adjusted Quantitative Precipitation Estimates (QPE<\/span>) across Colorado. The map is updated daily during the operational season (May 1 – Sep 30) by 11AM. The following six layers are currently available: 24-hour, 48-hour and 72-hour total precipitation, as well as maximum 1-hour, 2-hour and 6-hour precipitation over the past 24 hour period (to estimate where flash flooding<\/span> may have occurred). The accumulation ending time is 7AM of the date shown in the bottom right corner. Also shown optionally are vulnerable fire burn areas (post 2012), which are updated throughout the season to include new, vulnerable burn areas. The home button in the top left corner resets the map to the original zoom.\n

Note: The 24-hour, 48-hour and 72-hour total precipitation do not contain bias corrections today due to errors in the CoCoRaHS<\/span> data. This means there may be underestimations in QPE<\/span> over the southwest and southeast corners of the state. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\"\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Issue Date: Friday, September 6th, 2019 Issue Time: 10:15AM MDT Summary: Similar set up to Wednesday on Thursday with a shortwave<\/span> helping produce more widespread<\/span> showers over the mountains during the afternoon. As storms moved off the mountains to the northeast, they became capped<\/span> over the eastern plains. There was some better moisture in the […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10728,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10720\/revisions\/10728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}