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<br />Baea County <br /> <br />Table 4.1-3 <br />Point Rainfall Amounts Recorded in Baca County <br />for August 5 and 6, 1997 <br /> <br />Source Location Amount Recordin~ Period <br />Colorado 7 miles west- 0.65 inch 8/5/97@5p.m. to <br />Climate Center southwest of 8/6/97@5p.m. <br />(1998) Springfield <br />NOAA (1997b) North of 2.0-4.0 8/5/97 @ 11:15 a.m. to 1:30 <br /> Springfield inches p.m. <br />Colorado Stonington 2.46 8/5/97@ 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. <br />Climate Center inches <br />(1998) <br />Colorado Walsh 2.17 8/5/97@8a.m. to <br />Climate Center inches 8/6/97@8a.m. <br />(1998) <br />Colorado 7 miles south of 0.83 inch 8/5/97@7a.m. to <br />Climate Center Campo 8/6/97@7a.m. <br />(1998) <br /> <br />documented since the limit of the Pueblo radar's range occurs just northwest <br />of the mainstem of the Cimarron River. For this reason, there is little <br />available atmospheric information in this sparsely populated area, and the <br />ability of the NWS' Pueblo office to provide detailed precipitation amounts <br />and other meteorological characteristics is limited. <br /> <br />However, individual NWS spotter records verify the magnitude and spatial <br />distribution of the rainfall estimates displayed in Figure 4.1-2. According to <br />the Stonington station, the majority of the rainfall that fell in this 26-hour <br />period may be limited to an 8-hour duration in the afternoon. <br /> <br />The one significant difference between this point data and the radar <br />estimates is the NOAA Storm Data report that described flash floods <br />occurring north of Springfield following 2 to 4 inches of rain (NOAA 1997b). <br />Since no additional information is provided in the NOAA report, the lower <br />half (2 inches) of this estimated precipitation total appears more reasonable <br />than the upper (4 inches) based on the radar data and other point and areal <br />precipitation data recorded on this day. <br /> <br />Although storm totals are not very large for Baca County compared to other <br />counties declared in the 1997 Presidential Disaster Declaration, the <br />accumulated precipitation that fell during 1 week (August 5 through 12) in <br />Stonington (6.10 inches) was over half of the average annual rainfall the <br />county typically experiences (Plainsman Herald 1997). <br /> <br />d479/chap4-1,doc 08/12/98 <br /> <br />4.1-6 <br />