including the southern Sangre de Cristo and Wet Mountains. 13 inches graced the community of Cuchara.
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The episode as NWS PUB wrote it up.
A storm system produced some heavy snow over mainly the higher terrain of southern Colorado...including the southern Sangre de Cristo and Wet Mountains. Some of the heavier snow amounts with this system are as follows: 5 inches 3 miles southwest of downtown Colorado Springs...6 inches at Walsenburg...Beulah...2 miles south of Coaldale...5 miles north-northwest of Aguilar and 28 miles south of Granada in Prowers county...8 to 10 inches was measured at the following sites...14 miles to the south-southeast of Walsenburg...Leadville...Rye and La Veta...13 inches graced the community of Cuchara.
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 Mar 25, 2:07 PM MST, 4 hours 53 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 207 PM MST FRI MAR 25 2005 .SHORT TERM... (TONIGHT AND SATURDAY) ...EARLY SPRING STORM TO AFFECT SRN CO TONIGHT AND SATURDAY... CURRENTLY...WATER VAPOR IMAGERY AND RUC MODEL UPPER AIR ANALYSES SHOWED THE NEXT 80-100KT ULJ DIGGING OVER THE GREAT BASIN WITH THE LONGWAVE TROUGH AXIS NEARING THE UT/CO BORDER. PLENTY OF MOISTURE LAYING AROUND THANKS TO LAST NGTS COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE IN ERN CO WHERE DEW POINTS ARE IN THE 20S AND 30S. PLENTY OF MID AND HIGH LEVEL MOISTURE REMAINS OVER THE AREA PER IR AND WATER VAPOR SATELLITE IMAGERY. REGIONAL RADAR DATA SHOWING SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS ALONG AND WEST OF THE CONTDVD AND ISOLATED RAIN AND SNOW SHOWERS OVER THE ERN CO MTS. A LITTLE MORE COVERAGE OF SHOWERS WERE OCCURRING ACROSS NM IN RESPONSE TO NUMEROUS MID LEVEL SHORTWAVE TROUGHS AND MODERATE MID LEVEL INSTABILITY. THERE ARE EVEN SOME LIGHTNING STRIKES WITHIN THE LONGWAVE TROUGH IN UT. TNGT...NAM12 SHOWING SOME GOOD RUN-TO-RUN AND MODEL-TO-MODEL CONTINUITY...SO WILL FOLLOW FAIRLY CLOSE. ACTUALLY LOOKING FOR THE PRECIPITATION TO COME IN WAVES...OR A COUPLE OF EVENTS OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS. H7-H6 WAA(ISENTROPIC UPGLIDE) DEVELOPS ACROSS SERN CO THIS EVENING AND CONTINUES MUCH OF THE NGT. ALSO...WEAK TROWAL(TROUGH OF WARM AIR ALOFT) DEVELOPS OVER SERN CO. SO...SHOULD SEE PRECIPITATION EXPAND ACROSS MOST OF THE SERN CO MTS AND PLAINS TONIGHT. THERMAL VERTICAL PROFILES PER MODEL SOUNDINGS SHOWS MOSTLY SNOW ACROSS SERN CO AS THE MOIST SOUNDINGS ARE AROUND OR BELOW 0C... ESPECIALLY IN THE PARCEL ASCENT LAYER. STATIC STABILITIES WILL BE MODERATE(7-8 C/KM)...SO SOME OF THE SNOW BANDS COULD BE MODERATE TO HEAVY. AROUND THE CONTDVD...THERE WILL ONLY BE ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS...AS ANY UPSLOPE WIND COMPONENT WILL BE WEAK AT BEST...BUT THERE COULD BE SOME CONVECTIVE SNOW BURSTS. WITH ALL THE PRECIPITATION AND CLOUD COVER...NOT EXPECTED MUCH OF A TEMP DROP TONIGHT AND HAVE GONE A LITTLE ABOVE MOS IN SOME LOCATIONS. SAT...THIS WILL BE THE SECOND PUNCH FROM THE WEATHER SYSTEM. DYNAMICS AND OROGRAPHIC ASCENT SHOULD COME INTO PLAY FOR THE SERN CO MTS AND PLAINS. THE H5 LOW DEVELOPS OVER NERN NM WITH A NICE DEFORMATION PRECIPITATION ZONE DEVELOPING OVER SERN CO. H5-H3 Q(S) DIV ANALYSES SHOWING IMPLIED SYNOPTIC SCALE ASCENT OVER MUCH OF SERN CO. AGAIN...STATIC STABILITIES WILL LIKELY BE MODERATELY UNSTABLE(6-7 C/KM)...SO MODERATE TO HEAVY SNOW BANDS WILL BE LIKELY. AS THE EARLY SPRING STORM DEEPENS...A N-NELY 15-25KT SFC/LOWER TROP FLOW DEVELOPS ACROSS ERN CO. THIS IS A SOMEWHAT DECENT OROGRAPHIC COMPONENT FOR THE SRN SANGRE DE CRISTO MTS AND SRN FOOTHILLS ALONG WITH THE WET MTS...AND THE PALMER DIVIDE RIDGE. THE TRICKY PART WILL BE SRN EL PASO AND PUEBLO COUNTIES WITH THE DOWNSLOPE FLOW. IF THE DEFORMATION ZONE PRECIPITATION SHIELD AND LIFT REGION DEVELOPS OVERHEAD...THEN I THINK THIS WILL COMPENSATE FOR THE DOWNSLOPE FLOW. WILL GO WITH TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 7- 16 INCHES FOR THE SERN CO MTS AND A WINTER STORM WARNING(24 HOUR CRITERIA). WILL GO WITH TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 4-8 INCHES FROM PIKES PEAK TO COLORADO SPRINGS TO PUEBLO TO THE SERN CO PLAINS AND A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY(24 HOUR CRITERIA). PRECIPITATION SHOULD BE ENDING FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST BY SAT MID TO LATE AFTN AS THE SYSTEM MOVES FURTHER SE INTO THE SRN PLAINS AND MODERATE SUBSIDENCE DEVELOPS OVER CO. TEMPS WILL BE TRICKY. IF PRECIPITATION CONTINUES ACROSS MUCH OF S CNTRL/SERN CO...THEN DIURNAL TEMPS SWINGS WILL BE MINIMAL. METZE .LONG TERM... (SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY) THE UPR LVL TROF WL MOVE SOUTH AND EAST OF THE AREA SAT NIGHT WITH AN UPR RIDGE BUILDING OVR THE AREA THRU SUN. SAT EVENING THERE MAY BE SOME LINGERING SHOWERS ACRS MUCH OF THE AREA...BUT BY LATE NIGHT ALL THAT SHOULD END AS MSTR IS EXPECTED TO SIGNIFICANTLY DECREASE. SUN AFTERNOON 700MB TEMPS ACRS THE AREA WARM TO BETWEEN -2C AND +2 ACRS THE FORECAST AREA. TEMPS SUN WL BE A BIT OF A CHALLENGE AS MANY AREAS WL HAVE SNOW COVER WHICH WL HAVE AN EFFECT ON HOW MUCH TEMPS WL WARM...SO FOR NOW WL KEEP TEMPS A LITTLE BELOW GUIDANCE. LATE IN THE DAY MON THE UPR RIDGE WL BE SHIFTING E AS A NEW UPR TROF MOVES OVR THE WRN STATES. WRLY WINDS ALOFT INCREASE MON AND A LEE TROF DEVELOPS. 700MB TEMPS MON ARE EXPECTED TO WARM BETWEEN 0 AND 6C...SO SHOULD SEE A NICE WARM UP. THE ETA SHOWS A WK SHRTWV MOVING OVR THE AREA MON AFTERNOON AND IT IS SHOWING SOME CHC FOR PCPN OVR THE CENTRAL MTS...THE GFS DOES NOT HAVE THIS DISTURBANCE AND KEEPS THE AREA DRY. WL LEAVE THE FORECAST DRY FOR NOW. MON NIGHT THAT NEXT UPR TROF MOVES INTO UT...THE GFS STILL HOLDS OFF ON ANY PCPN MOVING INTO THE AREA. THE UPR TROF THEN MOVES ACRS THE AREA ON TUE WITH SOME PCPN EXPECTED...MAINLY OVR THE MTS. DOWNSLOPE FLOW OVR THE ERN AREAS SHOULD MEAN GENERALLY DRY AND WARM CONDITIONS...ALTHOUGH TEMPS ALOFT WL COOL SLIGHTLY. FOR TUE NIGHT AND WED ANOTHER WEA SYSTEM WL MOVE INTO THE AREA...KEEPING A TROF ACRS THE STATE. THE UPR TROF EXITS THE STATE WED NIGHT WITH DRY WEA RETURNING. FOR THU AN UPR RIDGE AND WARMER TEMPS WL BE OVR THE AREA. THU NIGHT/FRI THE UPR RIDGE WL GET FLATTENED AS A NEW SYSTEM MOVES OVR THE NRN U.S. ROCKIES...BUT THE WEA OVR THE FORECAST AREA WL STILL BE DRY AND MILD. && .PUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WINTER STORM WARNING FROM 6 PM FRIDAY TO 6 PM SATURDAY FOR COZ072-COZ073-COZ074-COZ075-COZ076-COZ077-COZ078-COZ079-COZ080- COZ083-COZ087-COZ088. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FROM 6 PM FRIDAY TO 6 PM SATURDAY FOR COZ081-COZ082-COZ084-COZ085-COZ086-COZ089-COZ093-COZ094-COZ095- COZ096-COZ097-COZ098-COZ099. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1135 AM MST FRI MAR 25 2005 COZ058>089-093>099-261400- ALAMOSA VICINITY/CENTRAL SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- CANON CITY VICINITY/EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY- CENTRAL CHAFFEE COUNTY BELOW 9000 FT- COLORADO SPRINGS VICINITY/SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE BELOW 7500 FT-CROWLEY COUNTY- DEL NORTE VICINITY/NORTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY-EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY- EASTERN SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS ABOVE 10000 FT- EASTERN SAWATCH MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FT- LA GARITA MOUNTAINS ABOVE 10000 FT-LA JUNTA VICINITY/OTERO COUNTY- LAMAR VICINITY/PROWERS COUNTY-LAS ANIMAS VICINITY/BENT COUNTY- LEADVILLE VICINITY/LAKE COUNTY BELOW 11000 FT- NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/MONUMENT RIDGE/RAMPART RANGE BELOW 7500 FT- NORTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FEET- NORTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 8500 AND 11000 FT- NORTHWESTERN FREMONT COUNTY ABOVE 8500 FT-PIKES PEAK ABOVE 11000 FT- PUEBLO AND VICINITY/PUEBLO COUNTY BELOW 6300 FT- SAGUACHE COUNTY EAST OF CONTINENTAL DIVIDE BELOW 10000 FT- SAGUACHE COUNTY WEST OF CONTINENTAL DIVIDE BELOW 10000 FT- SOUTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY- SOUTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FT- SOUTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 7500 AND 11000 FT- SPRINGFIELD VICINITY/BACA COUNTY- TELLER COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE ABOVE 7500 FT/PIKES PEAK BETWEEN 7500 AND 11000 FT- TRINIDAD VICINITY/WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY BELOW 7500 FT- UPPER RIO GRANDE VALLEY/EASTERN SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS BELOW 10000 FT- WALSENBURG VICINITY/UPPER HUERFANO RIVER BASIN BELOW 7500 FT- WESTERN CHAFFEE COUNTY BETWEEN 9000 AND 11000 FT- WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY- WESTERN MOSQUITO RANGE/EAST CHAFFEE COUNTY ABOVE 9000 FT- WESTERN MOSQUITO RANGE/EAST LAKE COUNTY ABOVE 11000 FT- WESTERN/CENTRAL FREMONT COUNTY BELOW 8500 FT- WET MOUNTAIN VALLEY BELOW 8500 FEET-WET MOUNTAINS ABOVE 10000 FT- WET MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 6300 AND 10000 FT- 1135 AM MST FRI MAR 25 2005 ...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM THIS EVENING TO 6 PM MST SATURDAY FOR FREMONT COUNTY...THE SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS...THE WET MOUNTAINS AND VALLEY...AND THE SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS... ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM THIS EVENING TO 6 PM MST SATURDAY FOR TELLER...EL PASO...PUEBLO...OTERO...CROWLEY... KIOWA...BENT...PROWERS...BACA...AND EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. A WEATHER SYSTEM OVER THE GREAT BASIN WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE SOUTHEASTWARD INTO THE COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE WEATHER SYSTEM WILL DEVELOP INTO AN EARLY SPRING STORM SYSTEM OVER NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO LATE TONIGHT. THERE WILL BE 1 TO 4 INCHES OF SNOW AROUND THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE TODAY. DURING TONIGHT...SNOW WILL BEGIN TO DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTHEAST COLORADO AND SPREAD WESTWARD TOWARDS THE SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO MOUNTAINS. 1 TO 4 INCHES OF SNOW WILL BE LIKELY ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST COLORADO PLAINS AND MOUNTAINS TONIGHT WITH 1 TO 2 INCHES POSSIBLE AROUND THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. ON SATURDAY...THE EARLY SPRING STORM SYSTEM WILL BE OVER NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO AND MOVING SOUTHEAST TOWARDS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS. SNOW WILL CONTINUE TO FALL ACROSS THE SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO PLAINS AND MOUNTAINS. THE SANGRE DE CRISTO AND WET MOUNTAINS... INCLUDING THE SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS...WILL SEE ANOTHER 4 TO 10 INCHES OF SNOW WITH A STORM TOTAL OF 7 TO 12 INCHES AND LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS. FROM PIKES PEAK TO COLORADO SPRINGS TO PUEBLO TO THE SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO PLAINS...THERE WILL BE ANOTHER 2 TO 4 INCHES OF SNOW WITH A STORM TOTAL OF 4 TO 8 INCHES ON SATURDAY. THE SNOW SHOULD DIMINISH FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST SATURDAY AFTERNOON. THE CHANCE OF LIGHT ACCUMULATING SNOW RETURNS TO THE SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL MOUNTAINS TUESDAY...SPREADING ACROSS THE HIGH MOUNTAIN VALLEYS THROUGH THE EASTERN PLAINS TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...AS ANOTHER PACIFIC WEATHER SYSTEM MOVES ACROSS THE REGION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER CONDITIONS THAT MEET REPORTING CRITERIA FOR SPOTTERS WILL BE LIKELY TODAY AND TONIGHT ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO. METZE
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
459 PM MST FRI MAR 25 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0335 PM HEAVY SNOW CUCHARA 37.38N 105.10W
03/25/2005 8.0 INCH HUERFANO CO TRAINED SPOTTER
0351 PM HEAVY SNOW N LA VETA 37.51N 105.01W
03/25/2005 5.0 INCH HUERFANO CO TRAINED SPOTTER
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MNThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
9 winter storm. Local standard time, as filed.
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