Days of storms leave parts of Colorado saturated

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AccuWeather's Tony Laubach reported live from Colorado on Aug. 14, looking back on days of thunderstorms that led to flash flooding.

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00:00It has been a stormy few days across parts of Northeast Colorado as hail and

00:03flooding rains have impacted many from the Front Range into the Plains.

00:07AccuWeather meteorologist Tony Laubach joins us live now from northern

00:11Colorado with some good news for those reeling after multiple rounds of storms.

00:16Tony, I know it's not as intense at the moment, but last night you had some

00:20pretty big storms nearby.

00:24Yeah, and that has been kind of a broken record here over the last several days

00:28and we're gonna kind of talk about what we're dealing with today. A little bit of

00:32storm activity. This is coming off of the foothills near the Loveland, Colorado

00:37area. We are starting to see that afternoon round of showers and storms.

00:40When you talk about the good news, we're not going to be seeing anything terribly

00:44strong or severe today. Most of that threat is shifted on east along with the

00:48moisture that fuels these storms. But yesterday, again, was just round three of

00:53many here. We're gonna take you out to Agate, Colorado. This is just to the

00:56northwest of the town of Lyman out on the Eastern Plains. So generally right

01:00along I-70 and we're gonna give you a little lesson on on some of the

01:04topography out here. What you are looking at is what is typically known as an

01:08arroya. An arroya is a dry creek bed that sometimes will transport water and in

01:14the case of what we saw yesterday, we see torrential rains that lead to what

01:18makes it now look like a raging river. This is a normally dry creek bed. I

01:22travel this route all the time and I can tell you it normally does not look as

01:26crazy as it looked as we saw last night. The reason for that was an isolated

01:31supercell that had developed and dropped copious amounts of hail and rain. And

01:35again, as we talked about here, this is just one of several rounds. We're gonna

01:39take you to a map here and show you what has looked like on the Front Range and

01:43the Eastern Plains over the last couple of days. We've seen massive amounts of

01:47rain. Notice that number there just to the northwest of Lyman. That right there

01:51is the culprit. We talk about rainfall totals there over four inches. This is

01:56Doppler radar indicated. And again, you talk about approaching that five inch

02:00mark there northwest of Lyman. You go to Fort Morgan up towards Sterling. See all

02:03those dots, those yellow and orange dots, indicative of where we've seen some of

02:08the stronger storms and the slower moving storms. Not a lot of steering

02:12current, which has really been the issue in terms of jumping those massive

02:16amounts of rain. Again, two to four inches, five inches maybe in some cases.

02:20Just in the last 48 hours, that does not take into account what we've seen prior

02:25to that over the weekend as we've had numerous storms, mainly again that hail

02:30and flooding threat. But we've had a couple of isolated tornadoes posted

02:33there as well. Bring you back live here. We changed camera angles. This looking

02:37off to the north, you kind of see the line of cumulus behind me. There's a

02:40convergence line that's setting up here. This would be north of Greeley and

02:44extending out east a little bit. Jeff, if we are going to see any severe

02:47weather in the near term, likely going to come out of this. And we talk about

02:51convergence lines. That means landspout potential as well. So we're gonna track

02:54these storms for the rest of the evening. We'll see if we see anything

02:57on the lower end. But the good news, we're not expecting widespread severe

03:00weather today. That's certainly good news there, Tony. Thanks for that

03:03report. And you got some great footage from yesterday. So we're checking back

03:07in with you for the next round. I know there's always something out there, at

03:11least this time of the year, even on the backside of true severe weather

03:15season.

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