{"id":16575,"date":"2022-05-05T08:40:23","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T14:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coloradofloodthreat.com\/?p=16575"},"modified":"2022-05-06T09:08:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T15:08:30","slug":"spm-2022-05-05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/?p=16575","title":{"rendered":"SPM 05-05-2022: Heavy Rain in Southern and Eastern Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"

Issue Date: Thursday, May 5th, 2022
\nIssue Time: 11:20 AM MDT<\/p>\n

Summary:<\/h3>\n

It was finally a portion of Southern Colorado’s turn for a bit of wild weather and accumulating precipitation yesterday – thanks to the quick moving low-pressure system traversing the state, as mentioned in yesterday’s FTB (and Monday’s FTO).<\/p>\n

A NWS<\/span> employee in Pueblo reported heavy rain at 10:30 pm last night, indicating that up to 1.14 inches of rain had fallen so far. CoCoRaHS<\/span> observations around town confirm this, with up to 1.29 inches of precipitation reported in 24-hours, which included lots of pea-sized to dime-sized hail. A bit further south, a severe thunderstorm<\/span> warning<\/span> was issued for a cell northwest of Trinidad for a cell producing 60 mph winds and up to quarter size hail. At my house in Trinidad, we had enough pea-sized hail to accumulate like snow!<\/p>\n

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Overnight, training<\/span> heavy rain prompted a flood warning<\/span> for Kit Carson County in the Northeast Plains, with impacts to I-70 and the towns of Burlington and Bethune. A CoCoRaHS<\/span> observer reported 1.37 inches of precipitation in Burlington, with similar totals from a few more observers in town. The flood warning<\/span> was able to expire this morning, with no known flood reports so far. If you happened to observe flooding in this area, or elsewhere, remember to use our “Report a Flood” tool.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the state, it was another day of good soaking rain for the Urban Corridor and snow for the Front Range, Northern, and Central Mountains. Traffic cams on I-70 show snowy conditions this morning and CDOT<\/span> is reporting many icy and snowpacked roads. Out west, there were only modest precipitation totals on the Western Slopes and in the Grand Valley, since the low had moved eastward early in the morning.<\/p>\n

There were no flood reports yesterday. For rainfall estimates in your area, check out the MetStorm Live QPE<\/span> 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<\/div>\n

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Issue Date: Thursday, May 5th, 2022 Issue Time: 11:20 AM MDT Summary: It was finally a portion of Southern Colorado’s turn for a bit of wild weather and accumulating precipitation yesterday – thanks to the quick moving low-pressure system traversing the state, as mentioned in yesterday’s FTB (and Monday’s FTO). A NWS<\/span> employee in Pueblo […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/16575"}],"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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16575"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16617,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16575\/revisions\/16617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}