Weather Alerts for Colorado

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Current Alerts for La Junta, CO: Severe Thunderstorm Watch

1. Air Quality Alert for: Garfield, CO; Eagle, CO

2. Air Quality Alert for: Montezuma, CO; Dolores, CO

3. Flash Flood Warning for: El Paso, CO

4. Flood Advisory for: Delta, CO; Montrose, CO

5. Flood Advisory for: Garfield, CO; Mesa, CO

6. Flood Advisory for: La Plata, CO

7. Flood Advisory for: Mesa, CO

8. Flood Advisory for: Moffat, CO

9. Flood Watch for: Northern Sangre de Cristo Mountains Between 8500 And 11000 Ft; Northern Sangre de Cristo Mountains above 11000 Ft; Southern Sangre De Cristo Mountains Between 7500 and 11000 Ft; Southern Sangre De Cristo Mountains Above 11000 Ft; Western/Central Fremont County Below 8500 Ft; Wet Mountain Valley Below 8500 Ft; Wet Mountains between 6300 and 10000Ft; Wet Mountains above 10000 Ft; Walsenburg Vicinity/Upper Huerfano River Basin Below 7500 Ft

10. Severe Thunderstorm Warning for: Cheyenne, CO

11. Severe Thunderstorm Warning for: El Paso, CO

12. Severe Thunderstorm Warning for: El Paso, CO; Pueblo, CO

13. Severe Thunderstorm Watch for: Bent, CO; Crowley, CO; El Paso, CO; Kiowa, CO; Otero, CO; Prowers, CO; Pueblo, CO

14. Severe Thunderstorm Watch for: Cheyenne, CO; Kit Carson, CO

15. Severe Thunderstorm Watch for: Lincoln, CO

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Weather Topic: What is Precipitation?

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Precipitation can refer to many different forms of water that may fall from clouds. Precipitation occurs after a cloud has become saturated to the point where its water particles are more dense than the air below the cloud.

In most cases, precipitation will reach the ground, but it is not uncommon for precipitation to evaporate before it reaches the earth's surface. When precipitation evaporates before it contacts the ground it is called Virga. Graupel, hail, sleet, rain, drizzle, and snow are forms of precipitation, but fog and mist are not considered precipitation because the water vapor which constitutes them isn't dense enough to fall to the ground.

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Weather Topic: What are Shelf Clouds?

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Shelf Clouds Next Topic: Sleet

A shelf cloud is similar to a wall cloud, but forms at the front of a storm cloud, instead of at the rear, where wall clouds form.

A shelf cloud is caused by a series of events set into motion by the advancing storm; first, cool air settles along the ground where precipitation has just fallen. As the cool air is brought in, the warmer air is displaced, and rises above it, because it is less dense. When the warmer air reaches the bottom of the storm cloud, it begins to cool again, and the resulting condensation is a visible shelf cloud.

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