1 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 Denver/Boulder, CO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 19, 3:57 AM MST, 2 hours 3 minutes earlier.
NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 355 AM MST SUN JAN 19 2003 SHORT TERM DISCUSSION: ANOTHER DRY DAY IN STORE FOR NE CO...WITH GUSTY WINDS CONTG OVER THE HIGHER MTN ELEVATIONS. STRONG AND DRY NWLY FLOW CONTS OVR WY AND CO THIS MRNG AS A STRONG UPR LVL RIDGE REMAINS ANCHORED OVR THE WRN U.S. ASOS ON CORONA PASS HAS HAD WINDS SUSTAINED AT 40-45 KTS ALL MRNG WITH PEAK GUSTS AS HIGH AS 57 KTS. RAWS OBSERVATIONS HAVE SHOWN WINDS GUSTING TO THE UPR 30S AND LOWER 40S THROUGH THE MRNG. CROSS SECTIONS FM THE MESO-ETA SHOW A BIT OF A PEAK IN THE CROSS BARRIER FLOW AT 12Z THIS MRNG...BUT ONLY MINIMAL WEAKENING OF THE WINDS THE REST OF TODAY. MM5 MODEL SHOWS SFC PRES GRADS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PERSISTENT MTN WAVE WILL REMAIN THROUGH TODAY AND CONT THIS EVENING. FOR THE PAST COUPLE DAYS THE STRONG WINDS HAVE REMAINED OVER THE HIGHER MTN RIDGES AND ERN SLOPES OF THE FOOTHILLS AND SEE NO REASON FOR TODAY TO BE ANY DIFFERENT. MAGNITUDE OF THE WIND SPEEDS ALSO SEEMS TO BE JUST BELOW HIGH WIND CRITERIA...WITH THE STRONGEST FLOW ALOFT OVR NERN WY AND NEBRASKA. WHILE THE WIND CONTS BLOWING IN THE MTNS...TEMPS ALOFT WILL ALSO BE WARMING ABT 5-8 DEGS C AT 700 MB WHICH WILL TRANSLATE TO AFTN HIGHS ABT 10-15 DEGS WARMER THAN YDA AFTN ON THE PLAINS. THE AMS OVR THE REGION WL CONT QUITE DRY SO SKIES WL BE QUITE SUNNY. KDRBY LONG TERM DISCUSSION...MON-TUE...MDLS MAINTAIN BLOCKING UPR RDG OVR W COAST WITH CONTD NWLY FLO ALF ACRS CNTRL RCKYS. BOTH AVN AND ETA TRY TO DRIVE A GUD SHT WV FM THE PAC INTO THE GRT BASIN BY LATE TUE. AVN IS STRONGER AND LTL FASTER WITH SYS WHILE ETA TENDS TO SPLT THE SHT WV WITH MOST OF ENERGY APPEARING TO BE IN SRN BRANCH OF FLOW INTO AZ. BECUZ OF THE SPD DIFFERENCE AVN IS FASTR TO SPRD MSTR IN ADV OF SYS INTO MTNS WITH SUM MINOR SNWFL SHWN BY MON NGT...WHILE ETA HOLDS OFF ON ANY PCPN IN MTNS UNTIL TUE NGT. TO COMPROMISE WILL GO WITH CURRENT FCST AND KEEP PCPN DVLPG IN MTNS ON TUE AFTN. MDLS SHOW SUM GRDL COOLING ALF THRU PRD...BUT WITH CONTD DWNSLP FLO ALG ERN SLPS AND ONTO HI PLAINS TEMPS SHUD RMN WELL ABV SEASONAL NORMS AS MDLS KEEP SFC HI PRES CONFINED TO GRT PLAINS AND UPR MISS VLY AND AWAY FRM ERN SLOPES OF RCKYS. WILL GNLY AVERAGE THE MYRIAD MOS TEMP GDNC PRODUCTS. IN XTNDD PRD...WED-SAT...WILL MAKE NO CHNGS TO PRSNT FCST ATTM. GARD...WFO BOULDER .DEN...NONE.
COZ030>051-191300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 1046 AM MST SAT JAN 18 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ...STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS TO CONTINUE IN THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS.... STRONG NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WILL CONTINUE OVER THE OUTLOOK AREA THROUGH TONIGHT. THESE WINDS WILL MIX DOWN TO THE SURFACE DURING THE DAY PRODUCING WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 50 MPH IN THE FOOTHILLS. ABOVE TIMBERLINE EVEN STRONGER GUSTS TO AS HIGH AS 65 MPH MAY CAUSE GROUND BLIZZARDS AND DANGEROUS WIND CHILLS. OVERNIGHT...THE STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS SHOULD CONTINUE WITH FOOTHILL AREAS OF BOULDER... LARIMER AND NORTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTIES POSSIBLY SEEING GUSTS AS HIGH AS 60 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE IN THE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS ON SUNDAY. SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS WILL DEVELOP OVER THE MOUNTAINS LATE TUESDAY WITH MORE WIDESPREAD SNOW...GUSTY WINDS...AND BLOWING SNOW EXPECTED TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. THE PLAINS WILL REMAIN DRY THROUGH NEXT FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT. BAKER/BARJENBRUCH
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
The National Wind Technology Center registered a peak wind gust to 75 mph (65 kts).
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Colorado in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Colorado, January 2003
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: 5338640.