- Stage now
- 1.00 ftreported Sep 29, 4:15 AM MDT
- 24 hour change
- No changesince Sep 28, 4:15 AM
- Elevation
- 10,791 ftabove sea level
- County
- Park County
- Position
- 39.3522° N, 106.0714° W
- Record since
- 2010
Water level
Middle Fork South Platte
Stage is the height of the water's surface above the gauge's own fixed zero, in feet, not the depth of the water. Every point drawn is a reading the gauge sent, at the time it sent it.
Left out: 1,590 readings the gauge sent that were not the water, the furthest 96.80 ft on Sep 30. A reading is left out when it leaps away from the water and straight back, sticks on one value, or swings with a gauge in ice or failing.
- Latest
- 1.00 ftSep 29, 4:15 AM
- Highest
- 1.01 ftSep 17, 12:00 AM
- Lowest
- 0.24 ftSep 21, 2:30 PM
- Range
- 0.77 fthighest less lowest
- Change
- Rose 0.27 ftsince Sep 15, 11:15 PM
- Readings
- 1,233
- Left out
- 1,590not the water
The readings these charts were drawn from, as a table
| Day | High ft | Low ft | Average ft | Last ft | Readings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 29 | 1.01 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 18 |
| Sep 28 | 1.00 | 0.82 | 0.99 | 1.00 | 96 |
| Sep 27 | 1.00 | 0.34 | 0.72 | 0.99 | 96 |
| Sep 26 | 0.94 | 0.34 | 0.60 | 0.75 | 96 |
| Sep 25 | 1.01 | 0.57 | 0.88 | 0.81 | 96 |
| Sep 24 | 1.01 | 0.65 | 0.94 | 1.00 | 92 |
| Sep 23 | 1.00 | 0.43 | 0.79 | 0.99 | 96 |
| Sep 22 | 1.00 | 0.29 | 0.70 | 1.00 | 96 |
| Sep 21 | 0.82 | 0.24 | 0.51 | 0.69 | 95 |
| Sep 20 | 0.99 | 0.30 | 0.63 | 0.69 | 84 |
| Sep 19 | 0.99 | 0.36 | 0.76 | 0.77 | 85 |
| Sep 18 | 1.01 | 0.40 | 0.82 | 0.96 | 96 |
| Sep 17 | 1.01 | 0.93 | 1.00 | 1.01 | 96 |
| Sep 16 | 1.00 | 0.35 | 0.73 | 1.00 | 88 |
| Sep 15 | 0.75 | 0.73 | 0.74 | 0.75 | 3 |
How it reports
- Schedule
- every houron the hour's :00
- Reports received, 24 hours
- 24 of 24100% of its schedule
- Reports received, 7 days
- 165 of 16898.2% of its schedule, 170 reports in all
- Longest silence, 7 days
- 3 hoursfrom Oct 14, 1:00 PM
- Latest report
- Oct 15, 10:00 PMlocal time
- Time to reach Storm Station
- 15 min9 in 10 within 15 min
- Against its reference, 30 days
- +1.1 °Fwarmer than the airport station KCCU, 9.5 miles away, on average over 436 readings; typical difference 6.6 °F
From Storm Station's own record of every report it heard from this station.
Against its reference: each temperature this station reports is compared with the nearest airport or climate reference station that reported within half an hour, up to 15 miles away. The figure is its reading less the reference's, on average, as both were reported; the typical difference is the root mean square. The difference in height is shown where both heights are known.
Its schedule is one report every hour, 24 in 24 hours. Two reports in the same hour count as one received.
Ranking Statistics
247 score85.5of 100
- Colorado median
- 93.2the median score of 2,650 stations
- Scoring higher
- 1,975stations in Colorado
- Sharing its score
- 2ranks 1,976 to 1,977
- Points deducted
- 14.511.6 accuracy, 1.3 forecast check, 1.0 arrival, 0.6 reports received
- Counted at the median
- Forecast checknot measured at this station; Colorado median 86.8
- Next above
- THUC2rank 1,975; ahead on 247 score 85.6 against 85.5
- Next below
- LANC2rank 1,977; behind on reports received 98.2% against 74.8%
Equal scores are ordered by the share of scheduled reports received, then the reports due in the week (the longer record first), then the median arrival, then the longest silence.
- Reports receivedweight 3598.234.4 of 35 pointsColorado median 98.8165 of 168 scheduled reports received in 7 days
- Arrivalweight 1090.49.0 of 10 pointsColorado median 90.3half its reports arrived within 15 min
- Continuityweight 10100.010.0 of 10 pointsColorado median 100.0longest silence 3 h, on a schedule of one report every 60 min
- Accuracyweight 2041.88.4 of 20 pointsColorado median 91.9its temperature against the airport station KCCU, 9.5 miles away, over 171 readings: typical difference 6.2 °F beyond a steady offset of +3.6 °F
- Instrument checksweight 15100.015.0 of 15 pointsColorado median 100.00 of 171 readings failed their check against its reference station
- Forecast checkweight 10-8.7 of 10 points, at the medianColorado median 86.8-
The score is the weighted mean of its six parts, from the last 7 days. How a station is ranked sets out each part.
How each part is scored
- Reports received
- Full marks for every scheduled report received, none for none, in proportion between
- Arrival
- Full marks for a median arrival within 10 min, none at 60 min
- Continuity
- Full marks for a longest silence of 3 reports or less (3 h), none for 72 (72 h)
- Accuracy
- Full marks within 2.5 °F of its reference, typically, none beyond 8.9 °F
- Instrument checks
- Full marks for no reading failed, none for 5 per cent or more
- Forecast check
- Full marks within 2 °F of the forecast on average, none at 8 °F
Near Middle Fork South Platte
Gauges
Weather instruments
How to read a gauge
A gauge measures the height of the water where it stands, its stage, in feet above a fixed mark at that gauge. Two gauges' stages are not comparable: each is measured from its own mark, and a reservoir's is often its height above sea level.
The stage shown is the latest the gauge reported, with the time it reported it. Storm Station hears each gauge on its own schedule and ranks it among its state's stations by its 247 score, how reliably it reports and how its readings hold up: that is its 247 rank.