{"id":1686,"date":"2015-08-18T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coloradofloodthreat.com\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2015-08-19T06:21:16","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T12:21:16","slug":"stp-08-18-2015-strong-to-severe-thunderstorms-produced-heavy-rain-hail-strong-winds-and-a-couple-tornadoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/?p=1686","title":{"rendered":"STP 08-18-2015: Strong-to-Severe Thunderstorms Produced Heavy Rain, Hail, Strong Winds, and a Couple Tornadoes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Issue Date: Tuesday, August 18th, 2015
\nIssue Time: 9:00 AM MDT<\/p>\n

Summary:<\/h3>\n

A robust shortwave trough<\/span> moved overhead yesterday, bringing broad-scale support for thunderstorms to Colorado, especially for areas along and east of the Continental Divide<\/span>. Instability from daytime heat, a surface cool front, moist upslope flow, and the dynamics from the trough<\/span> all combined to create intense convection<\/span>, with many thunderstorms quickly becoming strong-to-severe. A quick glance at storm reports from yesterday shows just how intense the thunderstorms were:<\/p>\n

1.75 inch hail: 1 mile E of Crook (Logan)
\n1.50 inch hail: 4 miles WSW of Sedgwick (Sedgwick), Crook (Logan)
\n1.0 inch hail: 6 miles WSW of Wiggins (Weld), 4 miles N of Elizabeth (Elbert), 2 miles S of Pine Junction (Jefferson)<\/p>\n

Tornado: 8 miles WNW of Last Chance (Adams), 5 miles SW of Kiowa (Elbert)<\/p>\n

With the amount of moisture available, heavy rain attended all thunderstorms, but storm motions helped to mitigate the flood threat. The following heavy rain observations were reported to the local National Weather Service offices:<\/p>\n

4 miles W of Lamar: 1.84 inches
\n7 miles N of Lamar: 2.00 inches
\n2 miles W of Las Animas: 1.10 inches
\n1 mile NE of La Junta: 1.35 inches<\/p>\n

Flash flooding<\/span> was observed in the following locations:<\/p>\n

7 miles N of Lamar (Prowers County) – Many county roads flooded
\nLa Junta (Otero County) – Highway 50 flooded<\/p>\n

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Issue Date: Tuesday, August 18th, 2015 Issue Time: 9:00 AM MDT Summary: A robust shortwave trough<\/span> moved overhead yesterday, bringing broad-scale support for thunderstorms to Colorado, especially for areas along and east of the Continental Divide<\/span>. Instability from daytime heat, a surface cool front, moist upslope flow, and the dynamics from the trough<\/span> all combined […]<\/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\/1686"}],"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=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1692,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions\/1692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}