{"id":12369,"date":"2020-07-18T10:46:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T16:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coloradofloodthreat.com\/?p=12369"},"modified":"2020-07-19T07:55:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T13:55:04","slug":"spm-07-18-2020-rain-continues-over-the-western-mountains-with-a-break-in-rainfall-over-the-eastern-plains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/?p=12369","title":{"rendered":"SPM 07-18-2020: Rain Continues over the Western Mountains with a Break in Rainfall over the Eastern Plains"},"content":{"rendered":"

Issue Date: Saturday, July 18th, 2020
\nIssue Time: 10:45AM MDT<\/p>\n

Summary:<\/h3>\n

It didn’t take long for storms to fire over the San Juan Mountains yesterday. The monsoonal moisture surge continued to hold high moisture over the area, and with a little heating and mid-level energy, storms kicked off just before 11AM. Storms were more pop-like, but persistent rainfall over the area allowed totals up 1 inch to accumulate over the southern San Juan Mountains. A USGS gage near Telluride recorded 0.22 inches, and CoCoRaHS<\/span>\/SNOTEL in the area were about the same. In the early evening, a storm tracked over Mancos and dropped 0.44 inches in about a 40-minute period. Around this time, a Flood Advisory was issued just north of the area with another storm over Dolores County. MRMS estimated just under 0.75 inches. Rainfall rates were low enough that major flooding was avoid, which was especially good for the 416 burn area. While rainfall activity was a little more scattered<\/span> over the Northern and Central Mountains, some decent convection<\/span> was able to form along the peaks and higher terrains. Delta and northern Montrose County had some heavy rainfall with totals estimated between 0.50 inches and 1 inch.<\/p>\n

As storms moved east, the highest rainfall totals were again along the southern Continental Divide<\/span> and Wet Mountains. The Copper Mountain ASOS gage recorded 0.26 inches. While the Southeast Mountains stayed mostly dry, there was some decent rainfall over the San Isabel National Forest and Sangre de Cristos. There was a little higher moisture over the Raton Ridge, and a gage outside Walsenburg recorded 0.33 inches. Not quite as much moisture over lower elevations north of the Raton Ridge, so the storms only produced some light outflow<\/span> winds as they quickly dissipated when the moved off the mountains. Flooding was not reported on Friday.<\/p>\n

To see precipitation estimates over your area the last 24 to 72-hours, 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 24-hour, 48-hour and 72-hour total precipitation contain bias corrections that are not disaggregated into the hourly estimates, so there will likely be some differences. 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.
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Issue Date: Saturday, July 18th, 2020 Issue Time: 10:45AM MDT Summary: It didn’t take long for storms to fire over the San Juan Mountains yesterday. The monsoonal moisture surge continued to hold high moisture over the area, and with a little heating and mid-level energy, storms kicked off just before 11AM. Storms were more pop-like, […]<\/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\/12369"}],"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=12369"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12378,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12369\/revisions\/12378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}