A storm system brought moderate to heavy snow to portions of the Front Range Mountains, Foothills and Urban Corridor. 5 inches at Bailey and Intercanyon; and 7 inches at Crow Hill and Simla.
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The episode as NWS BOU wrote it up.
A storm system brought moderate to heavy snow to portions of the Front Range Mountains, Foothills and Urban Corridor. Storm totals in the mountains and foothills included: 21.5 inches, 8 miles north of Blackhawk; 15.5 inches, 2 miles east-southeast of Rollinsville; 15 inches at Aspen Springs; 14.5 inches, 4 miles east-northeast of Ward; 12 inches, 6 miles southwest of Evergreen; 11 inches at Cabin Creek and 12 miles south-southwest of Georgetown; 10 inches at Winter Park; 9.5 inches near Highlands Ranch; 8 inches, 4 miles west-northwest of Conifer, Georgetown and Gross Reservoir; 7.5 inches at Bailey and Intercanyon; and 7 inches at Crow Hill and Simla. Locally higher storm totals in the Urban Corridor included: 7 inches at Boulder, 6 inches, 3 miles northeast of Castle Rock, with 5.5 inches at Lakewood and 3 miles south-southeast of Morrison.
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 Apr 2, 6:45 PM MST, 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER/BOULDER CO 745 PM MDT WED APR 2 2014 .UPDATE...RAIN SHOWERS ARE FORMING ACROSS NORTHERN COLORADO WITH SNOW SHOWERS IN THE MOUNTAINS. PRECIPITATION WILL CONTINUE TO FORM AND SPREAD SOUTH THROUGH THE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT HOURS. TEMPERATURES ARE SLOW TO FALL WITH MOST LOCATIONS ALONG THE FRONT RANGE AND EASTERN PLAINS IN THE 40S. THERE IS COOLER AIR OVER SOUTHERN WYOMING WHERE TEMPERATURES ARE IN THE UPPER 20S TO MID 30S. THIS COOLER HAS BEEN SLOWLY SEEPING INTO THE AREA. RIGHT NOW LOOKING LIKE A CHANGE OVER TO SNOW SOMETIME LATE THIS EVENING 10-MIDNIGHT...POSSIBLY SLIGHTLY EARLIER NORTH AND HIGHER UP. STILL THINKING MOST OF THE SNOW ACROSS THE PLAINS WILL BE IN THE 1-3 INCH RANGE BECAUSE PRECIPITATION WILL BEGIN AS RAIN AND WARM SURFACE TEMPERATURES. MODELS SHOWING A BAND OF HEAVY SNOW WILL FORM OVER THE PALMER DIVIDE AND STRETCH NORTHEAST INTO WYOMING. COULD SEE SLIGHTLY HEAVIER SNOW TOTALS IN THIS AREA. SNOW WILL QUICKLY TAPER OFF THURSDAY MORNING SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 76. FARTHER NORTH...SNOW MAY BE DONE BY SUNRISE. AIRMASS WILL REMAIN UNSTABLE THURSDAY...SO EXPECT TO SEE SCATTERED TO ISOLATED RAIN/SNOW SHOWERS DURING THE AFTERNOON. && .AVIATION...CEILINGS WILL CONTINUE TO LOWER DURING THE EVENING HOURS AS SHOWERS FORM. RAIN WILL CHANGE OVER TO SNOW AROUND 05Z. VISIBILITY WILL BE AROUND 1 MILE UNDER THE SNOW BUT COULD FALL TO A QUARTER MILE UNDER HEAVY SNOW. CEILINGS WILL BOTTOM OUT IN THE 500 TO 1500 FOOT RANGE. CONDITIONS WILL IMPROVE EARLY TO MID MORNING 12-15Z AS THIS SYSTEM EXITS THE REGION. SNOWFALL WILL BE 1 TO 3 INCHES AT THE DENVER AIRPORTS WITH SLIGHTLY HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE AT KAPA. GUSTY NORTH WINDS TO 25 KNOTS WILL OCCUR THURSDAY AFTERNOON. A BRIEF RAIN/SNOW SHOWER WILL BE POSSIBLE THURSDAY AFTERNOON. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 206 PM MDT WED APR 2 2014/ SHORT TERM...MODELS ARE IN PRETTY GOOD AGREEMENT THROUGH TOMORROW. STRONG SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT WILL BEGIN TO SLIDE EAST THIS EVENING. A SURFACE LOW WILL REMAIN OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO THIS EVENING...THEN SWING INTO KANSAS LATE TONIGHT. THERE IS AN INVERTED SURFACE TROUGH ALONG THE FRONT RANGE...WITH NO STRONG COLD FRONT IN SIGHT. SURFACE WINDS WILL BE GENERALLY FROM THE EAST OR NORTHEAST...BECOMING NORTHERLY IN THE WAKE OF THE TROUGH MIDDAY THURSDAY. COOLING WILL COME ALOFT...WITH COLUMNAR COOLING FROM PRECIPITATION. THERE IS DECENT DIVQ FORCING OVERNIGHT AND THURSDAY MORNING AHEAD OF THE TROUGH. THE UPPER TROUGH SLIDES FROM THE GREAT BASIN AT MIDNIGHT...TO EASTERN COLORADO MIDDAY THURSDAY. THERE IS A LIMITED PERIOD OF MOIST UPSLOPE...BY MIDDAY THURSDAY...NORTHERLY FLOW WILL BE DRYING OUT BEHIND THE TROUGH. MODEL DEPICTION OF A BAND OF HEAVIER SNOW ALONG THE PALMER LOOKS REASONABLE...GFS IS A BIT MORE AGGRESSIVE WITH SNOW THAN ECMWF. GIVEN THE FACTS THAT JET DYNAMICS DEPART QUICKLY...THERE IS SOME DISAGREEMENT IN HOW LONG THE INVERTED TROUGH HANGS AROUND...WARM GROUND WILL HELP MELT SNOW...THINK WE ARE BIT HEAVY HANDED WITH SNOW AMOUNTS FOR PLAINS...WILL CUT BACK A BIT. THURSDAY PROMISES TO BE A RAW DAY...WITH HIGHS IN THE UPPER 30S TO LOW 40S...SOME LINGERING CLOUDINESS...AND GUSTY NORTH WINDS. LONG TERM...SNOW WILL DIMINISH FROM THE NORTH TO THE SOUTH THURSDAY WITH CLEARING OVERNIGHT. FRIDAY WILL BE MOSTLY SUNNY AS RIDGING MOVES IN BRINGING TEMPERATURES CLOSER TO NORMAL WITH LIGHT WINDS. THE NEXT UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE IN SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH FRONTAL PASSAGE PROGGED FOR LATE SATURDAY. MOISTURE WILL MOVE IN OUT AHEAD OF THIS NEXT SYSTEM AND COMBINED WITH SOME INSTABILITY WILL BRING RAIN AND SNOW SHOWERS TO THE MOUNTAINS MOVING OUT ONTO THE PLAINS LATE SATURDAY. BEST SNOW FORMATION WILL OCCUR EARLY SUNDAY WITH TEMPERATURES HOVERING JUST ABOVE FREEZING OVER THE PLAINS. THIS WILL BRING MORE OF A RAIN AND SNOW MIX WITH ANY ACCUMULATION BEING LIGHT. SUNDAY INTO MONDAY IS A VERY UNSETTLED PATTERN WITH MOISTURE CONTINUING TO MOVE INTO THE REGION WITH NORTH/NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT. KEPT A SLIGHT CHANCE OF PRECIP IN THE GRIDS FOR THIS TIME THROUGH MONDAY WITH MOSTLY CLOUDY CONDITIONS. THIS WILL KEEP TEMPERATURES HOVERING JUST BELOW NORMAL VALUES. DRY AND WARMER CONDITIONS WILL RETURN TUESDAY AFTERNOON AS UPPER LEVEL RIDGING MOVES IN BRINGING A SIGNIFICANT WARM-UP FOR THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. AVIATION...MOST LIKELY PERIOD FOR IFR CONDITIONS WILL BE FROM MIDNIGHT TO MID MORNING THURSDAY. WITH NORTHERLY FLOW PROVIDING GOOD DRYING...EXPECT VFR CONDITIONS FOR MUCH OF THE AFTERNOON. && .BOU WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO NOON MDT THURSDAY FOR COZ041. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 9 AM MDT THURSDAY FOR COZ035-036. && SHORT TERM...RTG LONG TERM....BOWEN UPDATE/AVIATION...MEIER
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER/BOULDER CO 445 PM MDT WED APR 2 2014 COZ030>051-032245- JACKSON COUNTY BELOW 9000 FEET- WEST JACKSON AND WEST GRAND COUNTIES ABOVE 9000 FEET- GRAND AND SUMMIT COUNTIES BELOW 9000 FEET- SOUTH AND EAST JACKSON/LARIMER/NORTH AND NORTHEAST GRAND/ NORTHWEST BOULDER COUNTIES ABOVE 9000 FEET- SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST GRAND/WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST BOULDER/ GILPIN/CLEAR CREEK/SUMMIT/NORTH AND WEST PARK COUNTIES ABOVE 9000 FEET-LARIMER AND BOULDER COUNTIES BETWEEN 6000 AND 9000 FEET- JEFFERSON AND WEST DOUGLAS COUNTIES ABOVE 6000 FEET/GILPIN/CLEAR CREEK/NORTHEAST PARK COUNTIES BELOW 9000 FEET- CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST PARK COUNTY- LARIMER COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET/NORTHWEST WELD COUNTY- BOULDER AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES BELOW 6000 FEET/WEST BROOMFIELD COUNTY- NORTH DOUGLAS COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET/DENVER/WEST ADAMS AND ARAPAHOE COUNTIES/EAST BROOMFIELD COUNTY- ELBERT/CENTRAL AND EAST DOUGLAS COUNTIES ABOVE 6000 FEET- NORTHEAST WELD COUNTY-CENTRAL AND SOUTH WELD COUNTY-MORGAN COUNTY- CENTRAL AND EAST ADAMS AND ARAPAHOE COUNTIES- NORTH AND NORTHEAST ELBERT COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET/NORTH LINCOLN COUNTY- SOUTHEAST ELBERT COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET/SOUTH LINCOLN COUNTY- LOGAN COUNTY-WASHINGTON COUNTY-SEDGWICK COUNTY-PHILLIPS COUNTY- 445 PM MDT WED APR 2 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT A WEATHER SYSTEM WILL PRODUCE SCATTERED RAIN AND SNOW SHOWERS THROUGH MID EVENING. A COLD FRONT WILL PUSH SOUTH THIS EVENING TO TURN RAIN OVER TO SNOW TONIGHT. SOME INSTABILITY AND UPSLOPE FLOW WILL BRING HIGHER AMOUNTS OF SNOW TO THE FOOTHILLS AND PALMER DIVIDE AREA. A BAND OF SLIGHTLY HEAVIER SNOW IS EXPECTED OVER THE EASTERN PLAINS. BY SUNRISE...SNOW AMOUNTS WILL RANGE FROM 1 TO 4 INCHES OVER THE PLAINS...WITH 2 TO 6 INCHES FOR THE FOOTHILLS AND MOUNTAINS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY ANOTHER INCH OR TWO OF SNOW WILL BE POSSIBLE THURSDAY MORNING MAINLY OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 76. BY AFTERNOON...JUST EXPECT SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS ACROSS THE AREA WITH MOST OF THEM OVER THE MOUNTAINS. SOME RAIN SHOWERS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. THE NEXT SYSTEM WILL MOVE IN SATURDAY EVENING BRINGING SLIGHTLY COOLER TEMPERATURES AND A CHANCE OF SNOW SHOWERS FOR THE MOUNTAINS AND LIGHT SNOW SHOWERS FOR THE PLAINS THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEKEND INTO MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT. HOWEVER...ANY REPORTS OF ACCUMULATING SNOWFALL WILL BE APPRECIATED.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 winter weather, 3 winter storm. Local standard time, as filed.
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