{"id":4558,"date":"2017-05-19T11:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T17:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coloradofloodthreat.com\/?p=4558"},"modified":"2017-05-20T09:02:50","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T15:02:50","slug":"stp-05-19-2017-late-season-snowstorm-causes-widespread-precipitation-along-with-major-snow-dump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/?p=4558","title":{"rendered":"STP 05-19-2017: Late Season Snowstorm Causes Widespread Precipitation Along With Major Snow Dump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Issue Date: Friday, May 19th, 2017<br>\nIssue Time: 11:00AM MDT<\/p>\n<h3>Summary:<\/h3>\n<p>A strong disturbance and associate low-pressure system affected most of Colorado on Thursday, bringing multiple waves of showers, along with heavy snow in the mountains (and lower elevations for a time), and a few thunderstorms. The highest 24-hour precipitation amounts occurred in the Front Range and Urban Corridor, roughly along the I-25 corridor from Boulder to the Wyoming state line. These regions are typically favored for easterly upslope flow events as yesterday&rsquo;s storm was. A short list of highest amounts include:<\/p>\n<p>3.82 inches in Larimer County<br>\n3.26 inches in Weld County<br>\n2.49 inches in Boulder County<br>\n1.82 inches in Jefferson County<br>\n1.71 inches in Gilpin County<\/p>\n<p>Snow totals for this event were also impressive, especially given how late into the season it was and how low the snow-levels were for most of Thursday. Highest snow amounts were:<\/p>\n<p>30 inches in Larimer County<br>\n30 inches in Boulder County<br>\n22 inches in Gilpin County<br>\n19 inches in Jefferson County<br>\n11 inches in Summit County<\/p>\n<p>In addition, thunderstorms producing heavy rainfall were observed across the Southeast Plains as some atmospheric instability developed in conjunction with the strong upper-level forcing. Anywhere between 0.5 to 0.75 inches of rainfall occurred in parts of Pueblo County, likely falling in a period of 1 hour or less.<\/p>\n<p>For precipitation estimates in your area, check out our Precipitation Map below (note that this map is underestimating amounts north of Boulder &ndash; an updated map will be provided this afternoon). Flooding was not reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/STP_20170519_snap.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4569\" src=\"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/STP_20170519_snap.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"496\"\/><\/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: Friday, May 19th, 2017 Issue Time: 11:00AM MDT Summary: A strong disturbance and associate low-pressure system affected most of Colorado on Thursday, bringing multiple waves of showers, along with heavy snow in the mountains (and lower elevations for a time), and a few thunderstorms. The highest 24-hour precipitation amounts occurred in the Front [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"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\/4558"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4558"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4571,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4558\/revisions\/4571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}