{"id":12909,"date":"2020-08-25T09:51:22","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T15:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coloradofloodthreat.com\/?p=12909"},"modified":"2020-08-26T07:21:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T13:21:26","slug":"spm-08-25-2020-high-based-weak-storms-produce-spotty-mountain-rainfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/?p=12909","title":{"rendered":"SPM 08-25-2020: High-Based, Weak Storms Produce Spotty Mountain Rainfall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Issue Date: Tuesday, August 25th, 2020
\nIssue Time: 9:50AM MDT<\/p>\n

Summary:<\/h3>\n

It was another hot one yesterday with high temperatures reaching over 100F on the eastern plains and over some of the lower elevations of western Colorado. Eagle reach 93F and Steamboat 91F, so even the mountain towns were toasty. Diurnally driven storms fired over the mountains yesterday just after 1PM due to an increase in mid and upper level moisture. For the most part, storms were pop-like without much mid-level energy, so the rainfall cores were small and fairly weak in intensity. Thankfully, that meant not too much lightning, although I’m sure a couple storms produced a bolt or two. With the large dew point<\/span> depressions, some 35 mph gusts were also recorded coming from the storms that formed over the Southeast\/Wet Mountains.<\/p>\n

As for observations, CoCoRaHS<\/span> stations in southern Archuleta and Las Animas counties reported 0.27 and 0.32 inches, respectively. A couple SNOTEL stations in the San Juan Mountains and near Crestone, CO also recorded 0.30 inches. An evening storm popped over the Cheyenne Ridge and tracked into Weld County. QPE<\/span> picked up a small storm core which produced just over a half inch of rainfall. As expected, flooding was not reported.<\/p>\n

Ongoing large fire update (as of 9:45AM on InciWeb):<\/strong><\/span>
\nPine Gulch – north of Grand Junction: 134,108 acres; 47% contained
\nGrizzly Creek – Glenwood Canyon: 30,719 acres; 37% contained
\nCameron Peak – Medicine Bow Mountains: 20,118 acres; 0% contained
\nWilliams Fork – Arapho National Forecast: 11,266 acres; 5% contained<\/p>\n

To see precipitation estimates over your area the last 24-hours, scroll down to the State Precipitation Map below.
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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: Tuesday, August 25th, 2020 Issue Time: 9:50AM MDT Summary: It was another hot one yesterday with high temperatures reaching over 100F on the eastern plains and over some of the lower elevations of western Colorado. Eagle reach 93F and Steamboat 91F, so even the mountain towns were toasty. Diurnally driven storms fired over 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\/12909"}],"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=12909"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12917,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12909\/revisions\/12917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}