{"id":4708,"date":"2017-05-31T10:40:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T16:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coloradofloodthreat.com\/?p=4708"},"modified":"2017-06-01T09:17:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T15:17:49","slug":"stp-05-31-2017-scattered-slow-moving-storms-found-across-southeast-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/?p=4708","title":{"rendered":"STP 05-31-2017: Scattered, Slow Moving Storms Found Across Southeast Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Issue Date: Wednesday, May 31st, 2017<br>\nIssue Time: 10:45AM MDT<\/p>\n<h3>Summary:<\/h3>\n<p>Although under the influence of a weak ridge, early morning sunshine statewide boosted temperatures and created the instability necessary for storm development. Multiple rounds of slow moving thunderstorms were observed mainly across southeast Colorado. Most storms produced only very short-term heavy rainfall because a lack of <span class=\"glossaryLink\" aria-describedby=\"tt\" data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;shear&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;Local variation of the wind, either in the horizontal or vertical direction.&lt;\/div&gt;\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]'>shear<\/span> meant that the rainfall actually impeded on the updraft. Common totals were in the 0.25 to 0.5 inch range. However, a few more organized complexes produced rainfall exceeding 1 inch in El Paso, Pueblo, Huerfano and Baca counties. The highest rainfall totals was 2.41 inches from Baca County, right along the Kansas border from a slow moving storm that trekked across the area near sundown.<\/p>\n<p>For precipitation estimates in your area, check out our Precipitation Map below. Flooding was not reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/STP_20170531_snap.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4718\" src=\"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/STP_20170531_snap.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"490\"\/><\/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: Wednesday, May 31st, 2017 Issue Time: 10:45AM MDT Summary: Although under the influence of a weak ridge, early morning sunshine statewide boosted temperatures and created the instability necessary for storm development. Multiple rounds of slow moving thunderstorms were observed mainly across southeast Colorado. Most storms produced only very short-term heavy rainfall because a [&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\/4708"}],"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=4708"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4719,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708\/revisions\/4719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}