Mother nature blanketed portions of the northern mountains and northeast foothills with heavy snow as a Pacific storm system moved across the region. In the North Central Mountains snowfall totals included: 18 inches at the Mount Evans Research Center, 15 inches at Eldora Ski Area and 13 inches at Klondike.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS BOU wrote it up.
Mother nature blanketed portions of the northern mountains and northeast foothills with heavy snow as a Pacific storm system moved across the region. In the North Central Mountains snowfall totals included: 18 inches at the Mount Evans Research Center, 15 inches at Eldora Ski Area and 13 inches at Klondike. In the Front Range Foothills snowfall amounts included: 12 inches 3 miles north of Blackhawk, 11 inches at Golden Gate Canyon, 10 inches at Allens Park, Allenspark, Conifer and Crowhill, with 9 inches reported at Evergreen.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
4 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Colorado in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Colorado, April 1997
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5592095, 5592096, 5592097, 5592098.