Colorado, 2024

Heavy Rain in Colorado, June 29, 2024

June 29, 2024 · NWS GJT · 1 event in 1 county or zone

Lingering sub-tropical moisture remained across western Colorado with drier air pushing in from the west as the high pressure shifted further east with drier air increasing aloft. This resulted in less coverage of storms but some storms were still capable of producing brief heavy rain, one of which resulted in some street flooding in Garfield County.

Where it happened

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  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
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  • Marine and coastal
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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
None recorded
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What happened

The episode as NWS GJT wrote it up.

Lingering sub-tropical moisture remained across western Colorado with drier air pushing in from the west as the high pressure shifted further east with drier air increasing aloft. This resulted in less coverage of storms but some storms were still capable of producing brief heavy rain, one of which resulted in some street flooding in Garfield County.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Grand Junction, CO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 28, 4:55 PM MST, 22 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 4:55 PM MST, 22 hours 35 minutes before
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The radar

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Event by event

1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.

Heavy Rain, Garfield

When
June 29, 3:30 PM MST to 4:00 PM MST
Where
Garfield County, Glenwood Spgs
Reported by
Trained Spotter
Coordinates
39.550, -107.320

Brief heavy rain was accompanied by pea size hail, which caused 1 inch of water to run over a portion of 8th street in Glenwood Springs. Amount of rain was unknown.

What these are

Heavy Rain
Rainfall totals unusual for the place and season that did not produce a flood.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

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Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1197772.