{"id":483,"date":"2015-05-19T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coloradofloodthreat.com\/?p=483"},"modified":"2015-05-20T06:42:48","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T12:42:48","slug":"stp-05-19-2015-cool-and-quiet-for-most-of-the-day-snow-and-heavy-rain-picking-up-during-the-overnight-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/?p=483","title":{"rendered":"STP 05-19-2015: Cool and Quiet for Most of the Day, Snow and Heavy Rain Picking Up During the Overnight Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Issue Date: Tuesday, May 19th, 2015<br>\nIssue Time: 9:00 AM MDT<\/p>\n<h3>Summary:<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"glossaryLink\" aria-describedby=\"tt\" data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;flash flood&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 FLOOD<\/span> WARNINGS ARE CURRENTLY ONGOING IN EL PASO AND PUEBLO COUNTIES, WITH FLOOD ADVISORIES IN PLACE FOR NORTHWESTERN LAS ANIMAS AND NORTHEASTERN HUERFANO COUNTIES. ADDITIONALLY, AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY IS IN PLACE FOR ELBERT, PHILLIPS, EASTERN ADAMS, ARAPAHOE, MORGAN, WELD, LINCOLN, LOGAN, SEDGWICK, AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES.<\/p>\n<p>In what has been a wet May, overnight and this morning has been no different; Colorado Springs has already broken the daily precipitation record for May 19, as of 5 am, with 0.92 inches of rain and still falling. At 6 AM, a 12-hour rain total of 1.12 inches was reported 3 miles North of the Pueblo Reservoir in Pueblo County, and a 6-hour rain total of 1.21 inches was reported 3 miles NNE of Blende in Pueblo County. Additionally, 3.5 inches of snow had fallen in Poncha Springs (Chaffee County) between 2 AM and 6 AM. A few more heavy rain reports (as of 6 AM) include:<\/p>\n<p>5 miles NNE of Spanish Peaks (Huerfano): 2.20 inches<br>\n4 miles SW of Colorado Springs (El Paso): 2.20 inches<br>\n6 miles ESE of Thatcher (Las Animas): 2.03 inches<br>\n6 miles W of Fountain (El Paso): 1.84 inches<br>\n3 miles N of Manitou Springs (El Paso): 1.58 inches<br>\nColorado Springs (El Paso): 1.57 inches<br>\n9 miles NE of Penrose (El Paso): 1.53 inches<\/p>\n<p>For a complete statewide overview of precipitation, be sure and check out the STP map below.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150519_STPImage.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-491\" src=\"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150519_STPImage.png\" alt=\"20150519_STPImage\" width=\"886\" height=\"498\"\/><\/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, May 19th, 2015 Issue Time: 9:00 AM MDT Summary: <span class=\"glossaryLink\" aria-describedby=\"tt\" data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;flash flood&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 FLOOD<\/span> WARNINGS ARE CURRENTLY ONGOING IN EL PASO AND PUEBLO COUNTIES, WITH FLOOD ADVISORIES IN PLACE FOR NORTHWESTERN LAS ANIMAS AND NORTHEASTERN HUERFANO COUNTIES. ADDITIONALLY, AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY IS IN PLACE FOR ELBERT, PHILLIPS, EASTERN ADAMS, ARAPAHOE, MORGAN, [&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\/483"}],"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=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}