{"id":3092,"date":"2016-07-15T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T15:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coloradofloodthreat.com\/?p=3092"},"modified":"2017-04-24T17:07:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T23:07:04","slug":"stp-07-15-2016-uptick-in-thunderstorm-activityintensity-over-eastern-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/?p=3092","title":{"rendered":"STP 07-15-2016: Uptick in Thunderstorm Activity\/Intensity over Eastern Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Issue Date: Friday, July 15th, 2016<br>\nIssue Time: 9:00 AM MDT<\/p>\n<h3>Summary:<\/h3>\n<p>Mother Nature put on a show yesterday from the Front Range\/Southeast Mountains and eastward. Strong-to-<span class=\"glossaryLink\" aria-describedby=\"tt\" data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;severe thunderstorms&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;Thunderstorms that produce a tornado, winds of at least 58 mph (50 kts) and\/or hail at least 1&amp;quot; in diameter.&lt;\/div&gt;\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]'>severe thunderstorms<\/span> rumbled and produced large hail, strong winds, and periods of heavy rainfall. The Urban Corridor, Palmer Ridge, Southeast Plains, and Raton Ridge experienced the most coverage of storms, with lesser coverage for the Front Range, Southeast Mountains, and Northeast Plains. To the west, mostly sunny and dry conditions were the weather story.<\/p>\n<p>Last night&rsquo;s severe storms produced plenty of hail. Below are the reports meeting severe criteria (&gt; 1.0 inches in diameter):<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.5 inch hail:<\/strong> Flagler (Kit Carson), 16 miles N of Bethune (Kit Carson)<br><strong>2.0 inch:<\/strong> 2 miles S of Peterson AFB (El Paso), Peterson AFB (El Paso), 12 miles N of Kit Carson (Kit Carson),<br><strong>1.75 inch:<\/strong> 3 miles NE of Model (Las Animas), 4 miles SSE of Pueblo Reservoir (Pueblo), 1 mile S of Pinion (Pueblo), 10 miles SSW of Blende (Pueblo), 8 miles SE of Elbert (Elbert), 2 miles S of Elbert (Elbert), 2 miles W of Flagler (Kit Carson), 3 miles S of Seibert (Kit Carson), Vona (Kit Carson), 6 miles N of Stratton (Kit Carson)<br><strong>1.0 inch:<\/strong> Seibert (Kit Carson)<\/p>\n<p>Street\/field flooding likely occurred underneath strong\/severe storms. For a closer look at rainfall totals in your area, please see the STP map below for a look at 24-hour precipitation totals.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/STP_20160716.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3104\" src=\"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/STP_20160716.png\" alt=\"STP_20160716\" width=\"855\" height=\"509\"\/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issue Date: Friday, July 15th, 2016 Issue Time: 9:00 AM MDT Summary: Mother Nature put on a show yesterday from the Front Range\/Southeast Mountains and eastward. Strong-to-<span class=\"glossaryLink\" aria-describedby=\"tt\" data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;severe thunderstorms&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;Thunderstorms that produce a tornado, winds of at least 58 mph (50 kts) and\/or hail at least 1&amp;quot; in diameter.&lt;\/div&gt;\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]'>severe thunderstorms<\/span> rumbled and produced large hail, strong winds, and periods of heavy rainfall. The Urban Corridor, Palmer Ridge, Southeast Plains, and Raton Ridge experienced the most coverage of [&hellip;]<\/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\/3092"}],"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=3092"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4137,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092\/revisions\/4137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}