Strong winds aloft came to the surface, causing a relatively significant wind event over sections of southeast Colorado. mainly in El Paso County.
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The episode as NWS PUB wrote it up.
Strong winds aloft came to the surface, causing a relatively significant wind event over sections of southeast Colorado. High winds shattered hundreds of vehicle windows...mainly in El Paso County. Numerous trees and power lines were also taken down in the Colorado Springs areas, leaving around 50,000 people without power at the height of the outages. In some cases, power was not restored for several days. A small brush fire was started by a downed power line in the Skyway Park area on the west side of Colorado Springs, but was quickly put out. As a result of the fire, the Skyway Elementary School was evacuated. In addition...some semi-trailer trucks were blown over on Interstate 25. Fences and weak structures were also damaged or destroyed. The strongest winds...in excess of 80 mph...were reported near Colorado City in Pueblo County...near Walsenburg...and around the Air Force Academy and Monument, and in Skyway Park in El Paso County.
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 Nov 3, 3:39 AM MST, 2 hours 36 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 339 AM MST THU NOV 3 2005 .SHORT TERM... (TODAY AND TONIGHT) WINDS ARE STILL THE MAIN CONCERN. A SHRTWV TROF WL MOVE ACRS THE AREA TODAY. BEST OROGRAPHIC FLOW AND MSTR WL BE OVR WRN PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA...ESPECIALLY OVR THE CENTRAL MTS...WHERE THERE COULD BE SOME LIGHT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OVR THE HYR TRRN. THE ERN MTS SHOULD ALSO SEE A CHANCE FOR A FEW SHOWERS LATER TODAY. WITH THIS SYSTEM MOVING ACRS THE AREA TODAY...TEMPS WL BE COOLER. THE FLOW ALOFT WL REMAIN QUITE FAST WITH 50-60KTS AT 500 MB...AND WL SEE WINDY CONDITIONS OVR THE MTS...AND WINDS WL PICK UP LATER TODAY OVR THE LOWER ELEVATIONS...BUT HIGH WIND CRITERIA SHOULD NOT BE MET. TONIGHT THE TROF MOVES E OF THE AREA. THE GFS DRIES OUT THE AREA... WHILE THE NAM KEEPS A FEW SHOWERS OVR SOME OF THE WRN AREAS. THERE COULD STILL BE ENOUGH MSTR THAT WITH THE OROGRAPHIC FLOW...COULD CAUSE A FEW SHOWERS OVR THE SW AND CENTRAL MTS THRU THE NIGHT SO WL KEEP SOME ISOLD POPS IN THESE AREAS. THIS WL ALSO MATCH UP WELL WITH SURROUNDING AREAS. SOME BREEZY CONDITIONS WL CONTINUE TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY OVR THE HYR TRRN AND NEARBY AREAS. .LONG TERM... (FRIDAY THROUGH NEXT WEDNESDAY) AT THIS TIME IT APPEARS THAT A RELATIVELY DRY AND MILD METEOROLOGICAL PATTERN SETTING UP FOR THE CWFA IN THE LONG TERM WITH THE MAIN METEOROLOGICAL ISSUES BEING GUSTY WINDS AT TIMES AS WELL AS TEMPERATURES AND GENERALLY LOW GRADE MOUNTAIN POPS AT TIMES. LATEST LONGER TERM COMPUTER MODELS SUGGEST THAT A BASICALLY DRY AND FAST ZONAL FLOW PATTERN OVER REGION FRIDAY WITH UPPER FLOW BECOMING MORE NORTHWESTERLY ON SATURDAY BEFORE SWITCHING BACK TO ZONAL FROM MONDAY INTO EARLY TUESDAY. UPPER LOW IS THEN PROJECTED TO MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INTO NORTHERN NEVADA FROM TUESDAY INTO EARLY WEDNESDAY...ALLOWING UPPER FLOW TO BECOME MORE SOUTHWESTERLY DURING THIS PERIOD. NEARER TO THE SURFACE...NO SIGNIFICANT NORTHERLY SURGES ARE INDICATED AT THIS TIME WITH THE STRONGEST GRADIENT WINDS EXPECTED EARLY FRIDAY MORNING AND THEN AGAIN BY LATER TUESDAY INTO TUESDAY NIGHT. WARMEST MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO OCCUR MONDAY AND TUESDAY...WHILE COOLEST TEMPERATURES ARE PROJECTED SATURDAY AND THEN AGAIN BY NEXT WEDNESDAY...HOWEVER TEMPERATURES NEVER DIP MUCH BELOW CLIMATOLOGICAL AVERAGES DURING THE PERIOD. AS STATED EARLIER...GENERALLY LOW GRADE MAINLY CENTRAL AND WESTERN MOUNTAINS POPS WILL BE PAINTED AT THIS TIME. && .PUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 651 AM MST WED NOV 2 2005 COZ058>089-093>099-031400- 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- 651 AM MST WED NOV 2 2005 ...HIGH WIND WATCH LATE TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. AN UPPER LEVEL JET WILL LIKELY BRING STRONG WINDS TO THE MOUNTAINS OF LAKE AND CHAFFEE COUNTIES...PIKES PEAK AND TELLER COUNTY...AND THE SANGRE DE CRISTO AND WET MOUNTAINS...MAINLY ABOVE 9000 FEET... LATE TONIGHT. WIND SPEEDS OF 45 TO 55 MPH...WITH GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE WATCH AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING OVER THE MOUNTAINS OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO. WIND SPEEDS OF 45 TO 55 MPH...WITH GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE WATCH AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER CONDITIONS THAT MEET REPORTING CRITERIA FOR SPOTTERS WILL BE POSSIBLE AFTER MIDNIGHT.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
9 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Colorado in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Colorado, November 2005
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: 5479910, 5479911, 5479904, 5479909, 5479903, 5479905, 5479907, 5479906, 5479908.