{"id":3141,"date":"2016-07-19T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T15:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coloradofloodthreat.com\/?p=3141"},"modified":"2017-04-24T17:06:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T23:06:28","slug":"stp-07-19-2016-scattered-thunderstorms-rumbled-a-few-were-strongsevere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/?p=3141","title":{"rendered":"STP 07-19-2016: Scattered Thunderstorms Rumbled, a Few were Strong\/Severe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Issue Date: Tuesday, July 19th, 2015<br>\nIssue Time: 9:00 AM MDT<\/p>\n<h3>Summary:<\/h3>\n<p>It was an active period across much of the state yesterday as monsoonal moisture made a significant push into Colorado around a strong ridge centered over Texas. <span class=\"glossaryLink\" aria-describedby=\"tt\" data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;precipitable water&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;The total atmospheric water vapor contained in a vertical column of the atmosphere. It is typically measured in inches, and anomalously (deviation from normal) high values of precipitable water generally correlate to heavy rainfall potential.&lt;\/div&gt;\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]'>Precipitable water<\/span> values increased steadily throughout the day and night, reaching above 1 inch at all of the four normal reporting stations (Grand Junction, Pueblo, Boulder, and Schriever AFB). <span class=\"glossaryLink\" aria-describedby=\"tt\" data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;scattered&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;25-40% areal coverage&lt;\/div&gt;\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]'>Scattered<\/span> showers\/thunderstorms continued throughout the night across the High Country and Western Slope, with activity ongoing this morning. For eastern Colorado, a few of the storms were strong\/severe, producing periods of heavy rain, strong winds, and hail. Storm reports from yesterday&rsquo;s activity are as follows:<\/p>\n<p><strong>67 mph Thunderstorm Wind Gust<\/strong>: Holyoke (Phillips County)<br><strong>64 mph Thunderstorm Wind Gust<\/strong>: 8 miles S of Holyoke (Phillips County)<br><strong>59 mph Thunderstorm Wind Gust<\/strong>: Akron (Washington County)<br><strong>Thunderstorm Wind Damage<\/strong> (Large tree branches down along 10th street, tree down at 10th and 33rd intersection): 2 miles NNE of Greeley (Weld County)<br><strong>1.75 inch hail<\/strong>: 2 miles NNE of Greeley (Weld County)<br><strong>1.25 inch hail<\/strong>: 1 mile N of Greeley (Weld County)<\/p>\n<p>No <span class=\"glossaryLink\" aria-describedby=\"tt\" data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;flash flooding&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;&amp;lt;!-- wp:paragraph {&amp;quot;textColor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;white&amp;quot;} --&amp;gt;\n&amp;lt;p class=&amp;quot;has-white-color has-text-color&amp;quot;&amp;gt;flash flooding can refer to usually dry areas becoming rapidly inundated with water, or rapid water level rises on streams, creeks, or rivers beyond flood stage; typically caused by heavy rainfall, but can also be caused by meltwater&amp;lt;\/p&amp;gt;\n&amp;lt;!-- \/wp:paragraph --&amp;gt;&lt;\/div&gt;\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]'>flash flooding<\/span> was reported, although localized street\/field ponding and flooding likely occurred underneath strong thunderstorms. For a more complete look at 24-hour precipitation totals, please take a look at the Storm Total Precipitation map below.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160719_STPImage.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160719_STPImage.png\" alt=\"20160719_STPImage\" width=\"886\" height=\"498\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3146\"\/><\/a><br><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-136\" src=\"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/stormtotalprecip_legend.png\" alt=\"Storm Total Precip Legend\" width=\"470\" height=\"32\"\/><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issue Date: Tuesday, July 19th, 2015 Issue Time: 9:00 AM MDT Summary: It was an active period across much of the state yesterday as monsoonal moisture made a significant push into Colorado around a strong ridge centered over Texas. <span class=\"glossaryLink\" aria-describedby=\"tt\" data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;precipitable water&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;The total atmospheric water vapor contained in a vertical column of the atmosphere. It is typically measured in inches, and anomalously (deviation from normal) high values of precipitable water generally correlate to heavy rainfall potential.&lt;\/div&gt;\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]'>Precipitable water<\/span> values increased steadily throughout the day and night, reaching above 1 inch at all [&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\/3141"}],"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=3141"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4134,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141\/revisions\/4134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}