ARKANSAS RIVER BASIN

PRECIPITATION DATA AT SITES ON FORT CARSON MILITARY RESERVATION

A network of meteorological stations is operated on the Fort Carson Military Reservation to provide precipitation data for land-condition trend analysis, long-term climatic analysis, storm-runoff modeling, and operations management during military training exercises. Other meteorological data are available upon request.

382731104473701 MPRC METEOROLOGICAL STATION AT FORT CARSON, CO

LOCATION.--Lat 38°27'31", long 104°47'37", in NE14NE14 sec.29, T.18 S., R.66 W., Pueblo County, Hydrologic Unit 11020002, on Fort Carson Military Reservation, 0.1 mi northeast of Military Route 1, 2.1 mi northeast of Teller Reservoir, and 16 mi southwest of Fountain.

PRECIPITATION RECORDS

PERIOD OF RECORD.--May 1999 to current year. For a complete listing of historical data available for this site, see http://waterdata.usgs.gov/co/nwis/inventory/?site_no=382731104473701

GAGE.--Tipping-bucket rain gage with radio telemetry and electronic data logger. Elevation of gage is 5,800 ft above NGVD of 1929, from topographic map.

REMARKS.--Records during October through February may be less accurate than the rest of the published records.

EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD.--Maximum daily precipitation, 1.17 inches, July 17, 2000.

EXTREMES FOR CURRENT YEAR.--Maximum daily precipitation, 0.96 inch, Apr. 19.

Precipitation, total, inches 

WATER YEAR OCTOBER 2002 TO SEPTEMBER 2003

DAILY SUM VALUES

DAY	OCT	NOV	DEC	JAN	FEB	MAR	APR	MAY	JUN	JUL	AUG	SEP
1	0.07	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.02	0.00	0.00	0.00
2	0.07	0.06	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.19	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
3	0.07	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.03	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.46
4	0.00	0.00	0.14	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.08	0.00	0.02	0.00
5	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.00	0.04	0.00	0.00	0.33	0.00	0.00	0.00
6	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.00	0.01	0.00	0.03	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.11
7	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.27	0.00	0.05	0.00	0.03	0.00	0.00	0.06
8	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.14	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.35	0.02
9	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.01
10	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.25	0.00	0.00	0.00
11	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.06	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
12	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
13	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.52	0.00	0.00	0.13
14	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.17	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.09	0.00	0.00	0.00
15	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.06	0.00	0.15	0.46	0.00	0.55	0.00	0.01
16	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
17	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.85	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
18	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.71	0.00	0.00	0.61	0.00	0.03	0.00
19	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.00	0.26	0.02	0.96	0.00	0.14	0.21	0.00	0.00
20	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.12	0.15	0.00	0.00
21	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.16	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
22	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
23	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
24	0.05	0.00	0.09	0.00	0.01	0.19	0.01	0.09	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
25	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.00	0.10	0.00	0.00	0.02	0.00
26	0.09	0.05	0.00	0.00	0.08	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.00	0.14	0.58	0.00
27	0.05	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.03	0.00	0.00	0.26	0.00	0.01	0.00	0.00
28	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.12	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.34	0.32	0.16	0.00
29	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	---	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.00
30	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	---	0.00	0.00	0.08	0.00	0.00	0.45	0.00
31	0.00	---	0.00	0.00	---	0.00	---	0.02	---	0.00	0.01	---
TOTAL	0.44	0.12	0.25	0.07	1.06	2.17	1.34	1.03	2.53	1.38	1.64	0.80
MAX	0.09	0.06	0.14	0.06	0.27	0.85	0.96	0.46	0.61	0.55	0.58	0.46
WTR YR 2003   TOTAL 12.83  MAX 0.96