Welcome to the National Weather Service’s (NWS) Hazards Simplification ("Haz Simp") Project!
Haz Simp? I think I saw them play at a dive bar in college.
Constant lightning strikes in that cell. Made for a fun evening of storm watching, though I wish the storms made it further north like the morning's meso runs suggested.
This is my first spring in Colorado. The thunder just seems so much more intense here than on the east coast, even if the storm itself is minor. Last two nights we've had house shaker thunder claps. You get those once per year back east.
I have at least 6". Measured on the driveway which isn't the best place to measure due to the rain early on. I'll find a better yet non wind driven place to measure when I venture out later to clear the driveway.