2 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Pueblo, CO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 10, 1:40 PM MST, 2 hours 8 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO COLORADO
240 PM MDT TUE APR 10 2001
MAJOR CHALLENGES INCLUDE POTENTIAL FOR SNOW SW MOUNTAINS AND PIKES
PEAK REGION TONIGHT AND WINDS ON WEDNESDAY.
CURRENTLY...VIGOROUS STORM SYSTEM SYSTEM IN ARIZONA WITH WELL
DEFINED COMMA CLOUD. CONVECTION DEVELOPING OVER SW MOUNTAINS WELL
AHEAD OF SYSTEM. IN THE EAST WELL DEFINED DRY SLOT WITH LOW DEW
POINTS. WINDS BEGINNING TO TURN SOUTHERLY AS WARM FRONT LIFTS NORTH
SLOWLY. LOW CLOUDS RECEDING OVER PALMER DIVIDE.
AVN AND ETA IN PRETTY FAIR AGREEMENT WITH AZ SYSTEM BUT NOT AS GOOD
WITH TIMING OF NEXT SYSTEM. BOTH DEEPEN AZ SYSTEM QUICKLY TONIGHT
THEN MOVE IT OUT FAST ON WEDNESDAY AS KICKER APPROACHES. SURFACE LOW
FORECAST TO DEEPEN IN SE COLORADO AND MOVE TO NW KS EARLY WED.
BIGGEST PROBLEM WITH FORECAST TONIGHT IS SNOW AMOUNTS IN ZNS
58/59/60/61/67 AND 72. WITH LOW FORMING MOVING ACROSS AZ THERE WILL
CONTINUE TO BE GOOD CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT. WILL MENTION SNOW
AMOUNTS BELOW ADV CRITERIA BUT LOCALLY HIGHER. COORD WITH KGJT. WILL
FIGURE ON MOISTURE MOVING IN FROM EAST THIS EVENING ACROSS PALMER
DIVIDE AND RAMPART RANGE AS SFC LOW FORMS IN SE COLO. WITH STRONG
EAST AND NORTHEAST FLOW WOULD EXPECT BIGGEST SNOWS ALONG AND NORTH
OF DIVIDE. HOWEVER POTENTIAL FOR ADVISORY CRITERIA SNOW OVERNIGHT IN
72. NORTH WINDS WILL INCREASE MOST AREAS TONIGHT AND WITH ADDITIONAL
SNOW WILL HOIST SN/BLSN ADV FOR CENTRAL MOUNTAINS AND ZN 67. TIMING
WILL BE CRITICAL. NORTH TO NORTHEAST WINDS EARLY TONIGHT WILL SWITCH
AROUND TO NORTH WEST LATE. THE NORTHEAST WIND IS GOOD FOR SNOW ALONG
PALMER DIVIDE AND THE RAMPART RANGE BUT THE NORTHWEST WIND IS BETTER
FOR CENTRAL MOUNTAINS AND WESTERN TELLER COUNTY. QUITE A WORDING
DILEMMA.
WEDNESDAY...COLDER AND WIND MOST AREAS ALTHOUGH PRECIP AWAY FROM
MOUNTAINS SHOULD BE LIMITED TO MORNING HOURS. WILL ADJUST WORDING
SLIGHTLY TO HELP WITH THE PRECIP TRANSITION. NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT
WILL KEEP SOME SHOWERS IN THE MOUNTAINS...MAINLY ZONES 58 AND 59.
IN THE EXTENDED...MRF AND AVN HAVE NEXT SHORT WAVE MOVING ACROSS
SOUTHERN COLO THURSDAY NIGHT QUITE ABIT FARTHER SOUTH AND STRONGER
THAN ETA AT 60HRS. WILL MENTION CHC POPS FOR THURSDAY AND THURSDAY
NIGHT BUT SYSTEM IS OUT OF HERE FRIDAY. MODELS BUILD A DIRTY RIDGE
OVER THE REGION FOR THE WEEKEND WITH WEAK IMPULSE RIPPLING IN THE
FLOW. NOT MUCH CONFIDENCE SO WILL LEAVE WORDING ALONE. MRF
SUGGESTING AN UPSLOPE SURGE FOR MONDAY AND TUESDAY AS CANADIAN HIGH
BUILDS SOUTHWARD. THIS WOULD MAKE SINCE AS DEEP LOW FORMS IN THE
NORTHEAST AND RIDGE AMPLIFIES TO THE WEST. WILL MENTION MORE CLOUDS
AND COOL THE TEMPS ABIT FOR TUESDAY.
FORTUNE
.PUB...SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW ADVISORY TONIGHT ZN 58>59 LAKE COUNTY
AND EASTERN SAWATCH MOUNTAINS...ZN 67 TELLER COUNTY/RAMPART
RANGE/PIKES PEAK...AND ZNh 72 NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY.COZ058>081-101900- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1136 AM MDT TUE APR 10 2001 ...THE SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHEAST AND SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO... ...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT... ...WINTER STORM WATCH TONIGHT FOR NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY AND FOR THE PIKES PEAK REGION... A VIGOROUS STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE ACROSS NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO TONIGHT. THE ATMOSPHERE AHEAD OF THIS SYSTEM IS UNSTABLE BUT THE MOISTURE IS LIMITED. AFTERNOON HEATING WILL PROVIDE THE LIFT NEEDED FOR ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTHEAST PLAINS BY THIS EVENING BUT THE DEEP MOISTURE WILL REMAIN OVER KANSAS. AS THE LOW APPROACHES SOUTHERN COLORADO SNOW SHOWERS WILL DEVELOP OVER THE EASTERN SAN JUAN AND LA GARITA MOUNTAINS. SNOWFALL RATES MAY INTENSIFY UNDER ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY THIS EVENING. SNOW IS LIKELY TONIGHT ALONG THE PALMER DIVIDE...THE RAMPART RANGE AND PIKES PEAK AREA ALONG WITH GUSTY NORTH WINDS. THE HEAVIEST SNOW WILL BE ALONG AND NORTH OF THE PALMER DIVIDE. HOWEVER COMMUNITIES LIKE MONUMENT...PALMER LAKE AND BLACK FOREST...AND PERHAPS AS FAR SOUTH AS THE AIR FORCE ACADEMY...COULD SEE THREE TO SIX INCHES OF SNOW BY WEDNESDAY MORNING. THE SNOW...ALONG WITH WINDS GUSTING TO OVER 30 MPH...MAY PRODUCE HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS AT TIMES.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Colorado in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Colorado, April 2001
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: 5239361, 5239362.