{"id":7885,"date":"2018-08-03T09:41:21","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T15:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coloradofloodthreat.com\/?p=7885"},"modified":"2018-08-04T06:15:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T12:15:30","slug":"spm-08-03-2018-shortwave-triggered-plenty-of-clouds-but-rainfall-totals-were-limited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/?p=7885","title":{"rendered":"SPM 08-03-2018: Shortwave Triggered Plenty of Clouds, but Rainfall Totals were Limited"},"content":{"rendered":"

Issue Date: Friday, August 3rd, 2018
\nIssue Time: 09:45 AM MDT<\/p>\n

Summary:<\/h3>\n

Another shortwave trough<\/span> rounded the ridge and passed through the state on Thursday. Storms began to fire over the higher terrains in the mid-afternoon with the majority of the activity over western Colorado and the higher terrains. Without much instability from heavy cloud cover and haze<\/span>, the weak thunderstorms and showers were pulse-like and short-lived. Showers continued overnight over the northwest corner of the state as the trough<\/span> approached from the east and provided extra lift to keep the atmosphere active.<\/p>\n

Most totals yesterday were just at or under 0.25 inches except over the southern San Juan Mountains. A CoCoRaHS<\/span> station near Vallecito Lake reported 0.7 inches. The areal extent of the thunderstorms yesterday was not large, which helped limited excessive runoff and flash flooding<\/span> potential over the burn scars. To the east, Alamosa recorded 0.08 inches. Over the eastern mountains, an Areal Flood Advisory was issued for the Junkins burn scar just after 7PM as a storm tracked directly over the burn scar. No flooding was reported as of this morning, and max 1-hour radar rainfall estimates were just under 0.25 inches.<\/p>\n

To see how much precipitation over your area the last 72-hours, scroll down to the State Precipitation Map below.<\/p>\n

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\nThe map below shows radar-estimated, rainfall gage-adjusted Quantitative Precipitation Estimates (QPE<\/span>) across Colorado. The map is updated daily during the operational season (May 1 – Sep 30) by 11AM. The following six layers are currently available: 24-hour, 48-hour and 72-hour total precipitation, as well as maximum 1-hour, 2-hour and 6-hour precipitation over the past 24 hour period (to estimate where flash flooding<\/span> may have occurred). The 24-hour, 48-hour and 72-hour total precipitation contain bias corrections that are not disaggregated into the hourly estimates, so there will likely be some differences. The accumulation ending time is 7AM of the date shown in the bottom right corner. Also shown optionally are fire burn areas (post 2012), which are updated throughout the season to include new burn areas. The home button in the top left corner resets the map to the original zoom.
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Issue Date: Friday, August 3rd, 2018 Issue Time: 09:45 AM MDT Summary: Another shortwave trough<\/span> rounded the ridge and passed through the state on Thursday. Storms began to fire over the higher terrains in the mid-afternoon with the majority of the activity over western Colorado and the higher terrains. Without much instability from heavy cloud […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":8,"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\/7885"}],"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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7889,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7885\/revisions\/7889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}