A weather disturbance developed a strong pressure gradient across eastern Colorado. Winds gusted between 60 and 80 mph overnight through midmorning in the Pikes Peak region.
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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 PUB wrote it up.
A weather disturbance developed a strong pressure gradient across eastern Colorado. Winds gusted between 60 and 80 mph overnight through midmorning in the Pikes Peak region. A semi-truck hauling half of a mobile home was blown over on I-25 just north of Colorado Springs. Wind restrictions for high- profile vehicles were in effect for I-25 at the time. The truck knocked down a light pole, which ignited a small grass fire. Numerous small power outages were reported, and burgler alarms were set off by the high winds in southeast Colorado Springs.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Colorado in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Colorado, February 1999
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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5689621, 5689622, 5689623.