A brief high wind event was recorded in the Sangre de Cristo mountains to the Walsenburg area. An empty truck was blown over near Walsenburg on Interstate 25.
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A brief high wind event was recorded in the Sangre de Cristo mountains to the Walsenburg area. An empty truck was blown over near Walsenburg on Interstate 25.
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 Feb 10, 3:13 AM MST, 9 hours 27 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO 313 AM MST MON FEB 10 2003 SHORT TERM DISCUSSION...(TODAY AND TONIGHT) CURRENTLY ACROSS THE REGION...LEE TROUGH IS DEVELOPING WITH ITS AFFECTS MAINLY BEING FELT FARTHER OUT ON THE PLAINS AS STATIONS SUCH AS LAA AND LHX ALREADY HAVE A SUSTAINED WIND FROM THE WSW...AND THEIR TEMPS ARE 5-10F WARMER THEN STATIONS ALONG THE I-25 CORRIDOR. KPUX ATTM IS NOT SHOWING MUCH IN THE WAY OF ANY HIGH WIND SIGNATURES OVER THE MTNS...AND RAWS SITES NOT INDICATING ANY IMPRESSIVE WINDS IN PUB CWA. WAT VAP IMAGERY IS ALSO NOT INDICATING ANY DRYING SIGNATURES ATTM IN THE AREA. DISCUSSION...PLAN TO DROP HIGH WIND WATCH FOR THE NWS PUB CWA. NEW CROSS SECTION COMING IN (06Z) AND THEY DO NOT LOOK AS IMPRESSIVE AS THEY DID 24H AGO. IN ADDITION...A SHORT WAVE IS NOW PRGD TO CROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON...AND THIS AREA OF WEAK UPWARD VV IS NOT FAVORABLE FOR STRONG WINDS. I DO BELIEVE WE WILL SEE WINDY CONDITIONS ACROSS THE AREA TODAY...BUT I DO NOT BELIEVE HIGH WIND CRITERIA WILL BE MEANT. TODAY...GUSTY WINDS DEVELOPING. I PAINTED WSW WINDS OF 15 KNTS GUSTING TO 30 KNTS ON PLAINS. ON E SLOPES...WSW WINDS OF 20-25KTS WITH GUSTS TO AS HIGH AS 50 KNTS. WILL SEE SOME SNOW SHOWERS C MTNS...OTHERWISE MOSTLY CLEAR. WITH DOWNSLOPE FLOW...I HAVE TEMPS WARMING INTO THE 50S PLAINS TODAY. SNOW THAT IS ON THE GROUND SHOULD QUICKLY VANISH ONCE WINDS GET GOING. TONIGHT...CLEAR. TEMPS WILL NOT BE AS COLD AS PREVIOUS NIGHTS AS DOWNSLOPE WILL STILL BE FELT JUST OFF SFC. TEMPS MAINLY IN THE TEENS TO LOWER 20S. HODANISH LONG TERM DISCUSSION...(TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY). POPS THE MAIN CHALLENGE FOR WED NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY WITH PACIFIC SYSTEM. EARLY TUESDAY MORNING...STILL A BIT OF A MOUNTAIN WAVE PROFILE... THOUGH LAPSE RATES NOT TERRIBLY STEEP ABOVE THE MOUNTAIN TOP INVERSION...AND WINDS IN THE CRITICAL LAYER AGAIN NOT ALL THAT STRONG. STILL THINK THE PEAKS WILL HAVE SOME BRISK WINDS AND SOME MINOR GUSTS TO AROUND 30 MPH COULD SWEEP DOWN INTO I-25 CORRIDOR. BUT SHOULD STAY BELOW HIGH WIND CRITERIA. OTHERWISE...IT WILL REMAIN DRY. HAVE BUMPED UP TEMPS IN GRIDS SOME AS TODAYS CHINOOK SHOULD HELP MELT OFF THE SNOWFIELD SOME...AND AFTN MIXING SHOULD AGAIN COMPENSATE OVER THE REMAINING SNOWCOVER. UPPER RIDGE SHIFTS OVER AREA FOR WED AS PACIFIC LOW APPROACHES THE WESTERN US. MAINLY SOME MID AND HIGH LVL MOISTURE WILL SPREAD ACROSS THE FCST AREA FOR WED. 700 TEMPS WARM WITH -2C TO +0C...HOWEVER INCREASING CLOUD COVER AND THE FACT THAT WINDS ON THE PLAINS SHOULD REMAIN IN A LIGHT UPSLOPE PATTERN MAY HELP KEEP TEMPS FROM WARMING TOO MUCH. STILL 50S FOR THE SE PLAINS LOOK REASONABLE AND MAV GUIDANCE SEEMS OKAY. WITH MORE SUNSHINE...WE COULD BE WARMER. WED NIGHT DEEP EMOUGN MOISTURE SPREADS INTO SW AND CENTRAL MTNS FOR SOME SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS. AVN SPREADS MOISTURE/QPF IN FASTER THAN ETA BUT GIVEN CURRENT WV LOOPS... THIS COULD BE THE BETTER MODEL TO FOLLOW. DOESNT APPEAR TO BE TOO MUCH DYNAMICS WED NIGHT...BUT SOUTHWEST OROGRAPHIC FLOW WOULD FAVOR THE SOUTHWEST MTNS. REMAINDER OF EXTENDED GETS KIND OF MUDDLED AS UPPER LOW FILLS AND MOVES ONTO THE WEST COAST AS A BROAD TROF ON THURSDAY SENDING WEAK SHORTWAVES THROUGH THE SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT. GFS SEEMS TO BRING A STRONG CHUNK OF ENERGY ACROSS THE WRN/NRN PORTIONS OF THE FCST AREA ON WED NIGHT/THURS. GRIDS HAVE SOME SCATTERED POPS IN AND THIS SEEMS TO HANDLE IT WELL. MORE UNCERTAINTY EXISTS FOR THE EASTERN PLAINS AS GFS HAS AREA UNDER WRLY DOWNSLOPE FLOW. BUT MAY BE SOME WAA ALONG THE FAR EASTERN BORDER AREAS. SHOULD BE SOME FAIRLY DEEP MOISTURE ALOFT THOUGH...AND PERHAPS SOME INSTABILITY AS WELL...SO ISOLATED POPS STILL LOOK GOOD. TEMPS SHOULD STAY RELATIVELY WARM THROUGH THE PERIOD AS SOUTHWEST FLOW KEEPS 700 TEMPS AROUND TO SLIGHTLY ABOVE 0C. AS ENERGY PASSES BY TO OUR NORTH THURSDAY NIGHT/FRI WE FINALLY GET A COLD FRONT THROUGH THE SOUTHEAST PLAINS. WINDS SWING AROUND TO AN EASTERLY DIRECTION FOR FRI AS SFC HIGH DESCENDS CEN PLAINS. HAVE BUMPED UP POPS TO CHANCE CATEGORY FOR THE SE MTNS...OTHERWISE GOING GRIDS LOOK GOOD. SAT AND SUNDAY...BROAD TROUGH OVER THE US ROCKIES /GREAT BASIN FINALLY SHIFTS EAST OF THE REGION BY SUNDAY. UNTIL TROF AXIS PASSES ENOUGH MOISTURE/UPSLOPE (AND WAA ACROSS SE PLAINS) TO KEEP SLIGHT CHANCE POPS ACROSS AREA. TEMPS LOOK A LITTLE TOO COOL IN THE DAY 7 PERIOD. OTHERWISE...GRIDS LOOK GOOD. -KT .PUB...NONE.
COZ058>089-093>099-101359- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 700 AM MST MON FEB 10 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. GUSTY WEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED ON THE EAST SLOPES OF THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS AND ADJACENT PLAINS TODAY. ON THE EAST SLOPES OF THE MOUNTAINS...WEST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 55 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. ON THE PLAINS ADJACENT TO THE MOUNTAINS...WEST WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 35 TO 45 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE. LOCALLY HIGHER GUSTS WILL BE POSSIBLE IN WIND PRONE AREAS...ESPECIALLY IN THE WALSENBURG VICINITY. MOTORISTS ON INTERSTATE 25 AND OTHER NORTH SOUTH ORIENTED HIGHWAYS IN THE VICINITY OF THE MOUNTAINS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. A PACIFIC STORM SYSTEM WILL BRING SNOW TO THE COLORADO MOUNTAINS BEGINNING ON THURSDAY AND CONTINUING THROUGH SUNDAY. THE EASTERN SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS WILL HAVE THE BEST CHANCE OF RECEIVING ACCUMULATING SNOWFALL...ESPECIALLY THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHEAST COLORADO ON SATURDAY BRINGING A CHANCE FOR ACCUMULATING SNOW TO THE SOUTHEAST MOUNTAINS...INCLUDING THE SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS...WET MOUNTAINS...AND PIKES PEAK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO REPORT ANY STRONG WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TODAY. MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT...WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/PUB. HODANISH/KT
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