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<br />Springs, and Canon City, Colorado.
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<br />Ir. t'lO storm center near Pueblo, 11,1
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<br />inches of rainfall was reported to have :;"allen dEring a 6-hour period, The
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<br />average depth of r~infall over 1,000 square miles for the 12 hours was 8.8
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<br />29. Rainfall was fenera1 over tho South Platte River basin with the
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<br />maximum 6.hour rainfall (4.3 inches) recorded at Longmont, Colorado on
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<br />June 3. On June 4, 3.51 inchos of rainfall was reported at Kassler, Colorado.
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<br />A portion of the heavy snowfall, whieh oocurred over the Front Range in
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<br />April, still remained on the ground at the time of the Jl.lne Storm. Therefore,
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<br />the storm ~unoff ,vas illlgmented by snovnne1t. The South Platte River and all
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<br />its tributary streams draining the Front RanGe approached flood staGe about
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<br />June 7 and 8, oausing floods on the lower portions of the main stem.
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<br />30, Hay 30-31, 1935 storla,
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<br />The storm of Maj 30-31, 1935 oocurred
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<br />along the South Platte-Arkansas River divide, ~outheast of Denver, Colorado
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<br />with a major centor over the upper South Republican River basin and another
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<br />over the hea(lwaters of Bijou and i';iowa Creeks, An isohyetal map of the
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<br />storm is s11o\'1':1 on plate II.'!.
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<br />31. The storn, situation bogan with a high pressure area of cP air
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<br />becoming com?aratively stationary over the Great Lakes region at the time
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<br />a low pressure area of mP air was slowly moving ~rom Ut~~ into southwestern
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<br />Colorado. This synoptic pattern caused a wedge of mT air to be oarried
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<br />aoross th~ Texas Panhandle into southeastern Colorado. The mass of mP
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<br />air to the westward under-ran tD6 mT air, foroing the warmer mT air aloft.
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<br />A horizontal eonvergenoe of the illT air associated with rapid ooclusion of
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<br />a wave disturbanoe oaused intense rainfall,
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<br />32, It was estimated tt.at each of the t\~o magor c(mtors of the storm
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<br />had 24 inches of rainfall during a 12-hour period. The major portion of
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<br />thG rainfall, however, fell vli';,hin a 9_hour period beginning at 1 ?M.
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<br />l'.ay 30 fOl" the Bijou and KiCNfa C~ooks'()onter and.7 r,M. liccy 30 for'the Sou-th
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<br />Republican River center. The South J.el'ublioan River ccnter of tllc stonn
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<br />had an averaGe rainfall depth of 15.2 inches over 100 square miles for a
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<br />12.houl' duration, which approachos the maxim\Ull possible conveotive stenn
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