{"id":13270,"date":"2020-09-23T10:41:01","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T16:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coloradofloodthreat.com\/?p=13270"},"modified":"2020-09-24T08:03:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T14:03:44","slug":"spm-09-23-2020-weak-mountain-showers-a-couple-strong-storms-over-western-plains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/?p=13270","title":{"rendered":"SPM 09-23-2020: Weak Mountain Showers & A Couple Strong Storms Over Western Plains"},"content":{"rendered":"

Issue Date: Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020
\nIssue Time: 10:40AM MDT<\/p>\n

Summary:<\/h3>\n

Numerous<\/span> showers and thunderstorms fired over the mountain regions and adjacent plains of Colorado yesterday. Showers & storms over the high terrain were generally weak, with mountain rain gauges reporting 0.18 inches of total rainfall. A stronger thunderstorm zippered its way south from El Paso to Pueblo County after bubbling up over the top of the Palmer Ridge. This outflow<\/span>-driven convective cell brought some of the heaviest rain we have seen since the early cold Fall storm earlier this month. A Weather Underground station near where the storm fired over northern El Paso County reported 0.61 inches of rainfall. This high storm core total was isolated<\/span> as a nearby CoCoRaHS<\/span> observer reported 0.27 inches. The storm created a narrow path of heavy rain through eastern El Paso and Pueblo counties, which unfortunately is not well instrumented with rain gauges. The QPE<\/span> map indicates up to 1.5 inches fell in this storm core path. Gusty outflow<\/span> winds were also associated with this storm as the Pueblo airport reported a 45 mph wind gust. A second isolated<\/span> thunderstorm fired over southern Pueblo County around the same time as this Palmer Ridge storm, again creating a very small isolated<\/span> storm core with heavy rain reported. There was fortunately a CoCoRaHS<\/span> observer near the core of this storm, who reported 0.98 inches of rain accumulation with some pea-sized hail. This storm core was not picked up on the QPE<\/span> map, likely due to the later CoCoRaHS<\/span> report. No flooding was reported from these storms yesterday.<\/p>\n

Since dry weather is expected in the forecast, you may want to schedule your fall foliage mountain viewing trip. The mountain webcams, like the one from Aspen Highlands in the image below, shows the Aspens are starting to turn their orange Fall colors. Enjoy it while the wildfire smoke concentration stays low. Check out the webcam here:
https:\/\/aspen.roundshot.com\/highlands\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Large ongoing Colorado wildfires update (as of 10:30AM from InciWeb):<\/strong>
\nMiddle Fork in the Park Range: 6,187 acres; 0% contained
\nCameron Peak in the Medicine Bow Mountains: 104,652 acres; 17% contained (slight increase in size & containment)
\nWilliams Fork in the Arapaho National Forest: 12,320 acres; 16% contained<\/p>\n

For rainfall estimates in your neck of the woods over the last 24, 48, and 72 hours, check out our 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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