ARKANSAS RIVER BASIN

PRECIPITATION DATA AT SITES ON PINON CANYON MANEUVER SITE

A network of meteorological stations is operated on the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site 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.

373232103555201 BEAR SPRINGS METEOROLOGICAL STATION NEAR HOUGHTON, CO

LOCATION.--Lat 37°32'32", long 103°55'55", in SW14SW14 sec.5, T.29 S., R.58 W., Las Animas County, Hydrologic Unit 11020010, on Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site approximately 100 ft north of Military Supply Road 1, 5.8 mi east of Pipeline Road, 6.7 mi southeast of Houghton, and 37 mi southwest of La Junta.

PRECIPITATION RECORDS

PERIOD OF RECORD.--August 1983 to October 1998, March 1999 to current year. Site was part of a hydrologic study 1983-92, data published elsewhere. For a complete listing of historical data available for this site, see http://waterdata.usgs.gov/co/nwis/inventory/?site_no=373232103555201

GAGE.--Tipping-bucket rain gage with radio telemetry and electronic data logger. Elevation of gage is 5,200 ft above NGVD of 1929, from topographic map.

REMARKS.--Records during November through February are less accurate than the rest of the published records.

EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD.--Maximum daily precipitation, 2.82 inches, May 3, 1987.

EXTREMES FOR CURRENT YEAR.--Maximum daily precipitation, 0.89 inch, June 13.

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	0.00	0.07	0.00	0.02	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.05	0.00	0.00	0.00
2	0.01	0.01	0.00	0.08	0.00	0.03	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
3	0.01	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.06	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.03	0.17
4	0.00	0.00	0.17	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.15	0.00
5	0.00	0.00	0.07	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.00	0.71	0.00	0.06	0.00
6	0.00	0.00	0.04	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.02	0.00	0.00	0.74
7	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.28
8	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.16	0.00
9	0.00	0.12	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.05	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.07
10	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.02	0.00	0.00	0.00
11	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	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	0.47	0.00	0.00	0.00
13	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.89	0.00	0.00	0.11
14	0.00	0.02	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
15	0.00	0.05	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.34	0.00	0.21	0.00	0.00
16	0.00	0.01	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	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.31	0.00	0.00	0.00
18	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.06	0.00	0.01	0.00
19	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.03	0.44	0.53	0.00	0.06	0.09	0.01	0.00
20	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.03	0.21	0.00	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
21	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
22	0.05	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.08	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
23	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
24	0.02	0.00	0.06	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.21	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
25	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.02	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
26	0.35	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
27	0.05	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.02	0.00	0.00
28	0.01	0.00	0.02	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.53	0.00	0.00
29	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	---	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.57	0.00	0.15	0.00
30	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	---	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.52	0.00
31	0.01	---	0.00	0.00	---	0.00	---	0.03	---	0.00	0.00	---
TOTAL	0.53	0.29	0.37	0.11	0.08	0.85	0.62	0.61	3.17	0.85	1.09	1.37
MAX	0.35	0.12	0.17	0.08	0.03	0.44	0.53	0.34	0.89	0.53	0.52	0.74
WTR YR 2003   TOTAL 9.94  MAX 0.89