{"id":1652,"date":"2015-08-15T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coloradofloodthreat.com\/?p=1652"},"modified":"2015-08-16T06:52:42","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T12:52:42","slug":"stp-08-15-2015-mountain-thunderstorms-were-the-prominent-result-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/?p=1652","title":{"rendered":"STP 08-15-2015: Mountain Thunderstorms were the Prominent Result Yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Issue Date: Saturday, August 15th, 2015
\nIssue Time: 9:00 AM MDT<\/p>\n

Summary:<\/h3>\n

The upper ridge centered over New Mexico left Colorado without upper-air support for thunderstorm activity yesterday. However, mountain convection<\/span> was able to gather enough ingredients, namely daytime heat and residual moisture, to pop off scattered<\/span> thunderstorms throughout the afternoon and evening. Moisture was sufficient for efficient precipitation processes, so brief moderate-to-heavy rainfall was experienced under thunderstorms. Slow storm motions exacerbated this result, allowing fairly good rainfall totals to add up. Due to sparse population over the higher terrain, the best look at rainfall totals is in the form of the radar-derived Storm Total Precipitation map below.<\/p>\n

Adjacent lower elevations experienced isolated<\/span> thunderstorms, as well, thanks to two results: 1) outflow boundaries<\/span> from mountain convection<\/span> providing low-level convergence, and 2) thunderstorms drifting off the higher terrain. For completeness, here are a couple of the higher rainfall totals from CoCoRaHS<\/span> observers:<\/p>\n

Jefferson County: 1.50 inches
\nGrand County: 1.34 inches
\nPark County: 0.98 inches
\nBoulder County: 0.86 inches
\nLarimer County: 0.81
\nEl Paso County: 0.67 inches<\/p>\n

No flash flooding<\/span> was reported yesterday.<\/p>\n

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Issue Date: Saturday, August 15th, 2015 Issue Time: 9:00 AM MDT Summary: The upper ridge centered over New Mexico left Colorado without upper-air support for thunderstorm activity yesterday. However, mountain convection<\/span> was able to gather enough ingredients, namely daytime heat and residual moisture, to pop off scattered<\/span> thunderstorms throughout the afternoon and evening. Moisture was […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"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\/1652"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1659,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions\/1659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}