High winds occurred above timberline in Summit County in the early morning hours of the 14th. Peak wind gusts included: 89 mph, atop Loveland Pass and 8 miles south-southwest of Frisco; 76 mph, 1 mile south of Copper Mountain.
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High winds occurred above timberline in Summit County in the early morning hours of the 14th. Peak wind gusts included: 89 mph, atop Loveland Pass and 8 miles south-southwest of Frisco; 76 mph, 1 mile south of Copper Mountain. In addition, a localized peak wind gust to 81 mph was recorded at the NCAR Mesa Lab in the foothills of Boulder 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 Denver/Boulder, CO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 13, 11:18 PM MST, 42 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER/BOULDER CO 1118 PM MST THU FEB 13 2014 .UPDATE...HAVE ALLOWED THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORIES EXPIRE AS OF 11 PM. SNOW WILL LIKELY CONTINUE AT ITS PRESENT RATE OVER ZONE 34 INCLUDING THE I70 CORRIDOR MOUNTAINS AND PASSES FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO...THEN BEGIN DECREASING IN INTENSITY. SNOW IS DECREASING OVER THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS AND WILL LIKELY HAVE SOME BREAKS TONIGHT...BUT LIGHT SNOW WILL FALL ON AND OFF THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT. STRONG WINDS OF 50 TO 60 MPH OVER THE HIGH PEAKS AND PASSES WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE LIMITED VISIBILITIES IN BLOWING SNOW. THESE WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO DECREASE THROUGH THE NIGHT...BUT GUSTS TO 40 MPH WILL STILL PRODUCE BLOWING SNOW. HAVE INCREASED POPS OVER THE FAR NORTHEAST PLAINS AS AN AREA OF JET INDUCED SHOWERS ARE MOVING SOUTH OUT OF NE AND WY. ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE LESS THAN HALF AN INCH. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 757 PM MST THU FEB 13 2014/ UPDATE...WATER VAPOR SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWING SOME DRYING OVER NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO AND BACK INTO WESTERN WYOMING. EXPECT SNOW TO DECREASE OVERNIGHT DUE TO THIS DRYING. WILL CONTINUE THE ADVISORY THROUGH 11PM. WEB CAMERAS STILL SHOWING SNOW AND BLOWING IN SOME SPOTS IN THE MOUNTAINS. COLD FRONT IS SLOWLY SAGGING SOUTH ACROSS EASTERN WYOMING AND WESTERN NEBRASKA. THIS FRONT WILL BACK INTO NORTHEAST COLORADO AFTER MIDNIGHT BRINGING SLIGHTLY COOLER TEMPERATURES FOR FRIDAY. ADJUSTED WINDS SOME FOR TONIGHT TO REFLECT THE WIND SHIFT WITH THE FRONT. && .AVIATION...SCATTERED/BROKEN MID AND HIGH CLOUDS WILL CONTINUE TO STREAM ACROSS COLORADO THROUGH FRIDAY. WESTERLY WINDS ARE EXPECT TO LINGER CONTINUE THROUGH 09Z. AROUND 09Z...A WEAK COLD WILL MOVE THROUGH CAUSING WINDS TO TURN NORTH TO NORTHEAST. WINDS WILL SLOWLY TURN CLOCKWISE FRIDAY MORNING...EVENTUALLY BECOMING SOUTHEAST BY LATE FRIDAY MORNING. .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 347 PM MST THU FEB 13 2014/ SHORT TERM...SNOW CONTINUING ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS...HAS INCREASED A BIT DURING THE PAST FEW HOURS WITH GOOD OROGRAPHICS. A BIT OF WARM AIR ADVECTION HAS OFFSET DECENT LAPSE RATES SLIGHTLY. STILL SOME AREAS WITH MODERATE SNOWFALL...MAINLY ALONG THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE AND ACROSS THE PARK AND GORE RANGES OF WESTERN JACKSON COUNTY. ALSO WINDS GUSTING TO 55 MPH ACROSS THE HIGHER PASSES PRODUCING SOME BLOWING SNOW. SNOWFALL LESS ACROSS NORTH AND MIDDLE PARKS AND COULD BE MIXING WITH RAIN AS SOME LOCATIONS CURRENTLY IN THE MID AND UPPER 40S. ALONG FOOTHILLS...WINDS WERE GUSTING TO 60 MPH IN SOME LOCATIONS. GUSTY WINDS HAVE ALSO SPREAD ACROSS THE ADJACENT PLAINS WITH THE STRONGEST GUSTS NEAR THE FOOTHILLS. MODELS INDICATE SOME DECREASE IN THE MOISTURE DURING THE EVENING WITH MORE MID LEVEL WARMING. BUT OROGRAPHICS REMAIN FAVORABLE WITH GUSTY WINDS CONTINUING. ADDITIONAL ACCUMULATIONS TO OCCUR BUT WILL BE ON THE LIGHT SIDE DUE TO THE MID LEVEL WARMING. THE GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE AREAS OF BLOWING SNOW ACROSS THE MOUNTAIN PASSES. WILL CONTINUE THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 06Z. OVERNIGHT...WARM AIR ADVECTION CONTINUES WHICH WILL KEEP ANY ADDITIONAL SNOWFALL LIGHT. STILL ENOUGH MOISTURE AND OROGRAPHICS TO KEEP THE FAIRLY HIGH POPS GOING. SOME DECREASE IN THE FLOW ALOFT AFTER MIDNIGHT AS THE UPPER LEVEL JET SHIFTS INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS. WINDS TO GRADUALLY DECREASE ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS THOUGH IT WILL REMAIN GUSTY ACROSS THE HIGHER RIDGES. STILL ENOUGH FOR SOME BLOWING SNOW. ACROSS PLAINS...WINDS TO DECREASE DURING THE EVENING AS GRADIENT RELAXES AND AIRMASS STABILIZES. LIFT FROM JET MAY BE ENOUGH TO GENERATE A FEW LIGHT SHOWERS OVER THE FAR NORTHEAST PLAINS AFTER 03Z. THERE MAY BE RAIN AND SNOW MIX INITIALLY. LIFT MOVES NORTHEAST INTO NEBRASKA AFTER MIDNIGHT...SO ANY LINGERING LIGHT SNOW SHOULD END BY 09Z. MODELS CONTINUE TO SHOW A WEAK FRONT MOVING INTO NORTHEAST COLORADO AFTER MIDNIGHT. ONLY IMPACT WILL BE FOR THE NORTHWEST WINDS TO BECOME A BIT MORE NORTHERLY ALONG THE URBAN CORRIDOR. ON FRIDAY...FAIRLY STRONG WEST TO NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT CONTINUES WITH SOME INCREASE IN THE FLOW ALOFT BY THE AFTERNOON. CROSS SECTIONS SHOW MOISTURE INCREASING ACROSS MOUNTAINS DURING THE AFTERNOON BUT MID LEVEL WARMING WILL KEEP AIRMASS RATHER STABLE. OROGRAPHICS WILL KEEP SOME LIGHT SNOW OR FLURRIES GOING...BUT STABLE ATMOSPHERE WILL LIMIT ADDITIONAL SNOW AMOUNTS. GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE AREAS OF BLOWING SNOW...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE HIGHER MOUNTAIN PASSES. MAIN CONCERN IS THE POTENTIAL FOR STRONG WINDS ALONG THE FOOTHILLS LATE IN THE AFTERNOON. MODELS CONTINUE TO INDICATE CROSS MOUNTAIN FLOW INCREASING TO 60 KTS AT MOUNTAIN TOP BY THE EVENING. IN ADDITION...FORECAST SOUNDINGS SHOW INVERSION AT MOUNTAIN TOP. AT THIS TIME...IT APPEARS WINDS SHOULD REMAIN BELOW HIGH WIND CRITERIA THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. NO CHANGES TO THE HIGH WIND WATCH. ACROSS PLAINS...WEAK FRONT TO BRING SLIGHTLY COOLER AIR TO THE AREA. AFTER A BRIEF SHIFT TO THE NORTH DURING THE MORNING...MIXING WILL SHIFT WINDS BACK TO THE NORTHWEST ACROSS MOST OF NORTHEAST COLORADO. DOWNSLOPE WESTERLY WINDS TO SPREAD ACROSS THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE URBAN CORRIDOR DURING THE AFTERNOON. LONG TERM...A QUICK LITTLE TROUGH WILL MOVE OVER THE AREA FRIDAY NIGHT. THIS WILL BRING INCREASED NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT AND A BRIEF OPPORTUNITY FOR HIGH WINDS OVER THE HIGH MOUNTAINS AND EAST SLOPES OF THE FRONT RANGE. STILL NOT LOOKING TOO GOOD FOR WAVE ENHANCEMENT...BUT WITH 50-60 KNOTS AT RIDGETOP LEVEL AND STRONG TEMPERATURE ADVECTION BOTH AHEAD AND BEHIND THE TROUGH...IT IS A CANDIDATE FOR BRUTE FORCE WINDS PUSHING DOWN INTO THE FOOTHILLS FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY MORNING. WE WILL KEEP THE HIGH WIND WATCH GOING...TOO LOW A THREAT TO INCLUDE THE ADJACENT PLAINS. ALSO A QUICK SHOT OF SNOW FRIDAY NIGHT IN THE MOUNTAINS...THEN PRETTY QUICK DRYING BEHIND THE TROUGH SATURDAY MORNING. ANOTHER FACTOR WILL BE THE COOLING AND A MORE NORTHERLY WIND SHIFT DURING THE DAY SATURDAY. THIS WAVE IS TIMED SO THAT THERE IS WARMING OVERNIGHT AND THEN COOLING DURING THE DAY...THEN WARMING AGAIN WITH DOWNSLOPE WINDS SATURDAY NIGHT. SO I ADJUSTED TEMPERATURES ACCORDINGLY...FAIRLY MILD NIGHTS BUT LIMITED WARMING ON SATURDAY. STILL BASICALLY SPLITTING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GUIDANCES ON HIGHS BUT KEEPING THE LOWS WARMER WITH SOME CLOUDS AND WIND. SUNDAY LOOKS TO BE THE WARMEST DAY AS THERE WILL BE FEWER CLOUDS AND THE WARMEST AIR ALOFT. COULD BE PUSHING 70 IF WINDS AND SUNSHINE WERE OPTIMIZED...BUT WILL STICK WITH OUR MID 60S FIGURING THERE WILL STILL BE SOME LIMITING FACTORS. ANOTHER WEAK TROUGH BRINGS SOME COOLING SUNDAY NIGHT...THEN DRY WESTERLY FLOW FOR THE EARLY PART OF THE WEEK WITH STILL MILD TEMPERATURES. GENERAL AGREEMENT ON A LARGER SCALE TROUGH FOR LATER IN THE WEEK...ECMWF IS STRONGER WITH A LEAD WAVE ON WEDNESDAY WHILE THE GFS HAS A LITTLE WAVE THEN AND PUTS MORE ENERGY INTO A SECOND WAVE ABOUT FRIDAY. ENSEMBLES AND TRENDS FAVORING THE ECMWF SOLUTION...WILL SHOW COOLING THEN AND SOME LOW POPS FOR THE PLAINS WEDNESDAY NIGHT. STRONGER DEVELOPMENT COULD BRING MORE OF COURSE BUT IT COULD ALSO BE WEAKER AND/OR SLOWER. AVIATION...NORTHWEST WINDS HAVE MIXED ACROSS THE AREA WITH SOME GUSTS TO 40 KTS AT KBJC AND 30 KTS AT KDEN. WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO DECREASE THROUGH THIS EVENING AS GRADIENT WEAKENS AND AIRMASS STABILIZES. STILL SOME GUSTS TO 20 KTS POSSIBLE AT KBJC. WINDS COULD BRIEFLY SHIFT TO THE SOUTHWEST AFTER 02Z AS DRAINAGE FLOW TRIES TO DEVELOP. BUT NORTHWEST WINDS TO PREVAIL AHEAD OF A WEAK COLD FRONT. THIS FRONT STILL EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS THE AREA AFTER 06Z WITH WINDS BECOMING MORE NORTHERLY. WINDS TO BECOME LIGHT EASTERLY BY 15Z BEFORE SHIFTING TO THE SOUTHWEST AFTER 18Z AS DOWNSLOPE WINDS DEVELOP. VFR TO CONTINUE WITH UNLIMITED CEILINGS. && .BOU WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... HIGH WIND WATCH FROM FRIDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING FOR COZ035-036. && SHORT TERM...D-L LONG TERM....GIMMESTAD AVIATION.....MEIER UPDATE.......KRIEDERMAN
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER/BOULDER CO 1102 AM MST THU FEB 13 2014 COZ030>051-141815- 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- 1102 AM MST THU FEB 13 2014 ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR THE NORTH CENTRAL MOUNTAINS THOUGH THIS EVENING... ...HIGH WIND WATCH FRONT RANGE FOOTHILLS LATE FRIDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SNOW AND GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE MOUNTAINS THROUGH THIS EVENING...THEN DECREASE OVERNIGHT. WIND GUSTS BETWEEN 50 AND 60 MPH WILL OCCUR ACROSS THE HIGH PEAKS AND PASSES CREATING AREAS OF BLOWING SNOW WHICH WILL REDUCE VISIBILITIES TO LESS THAN A MILE AT TIMES. ADDITIONAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 4 TO 8 INCHES CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT WITH UP TO 3 INCHES IN THE HIGH VALLEYS. GUSTY WINDS TO 60 MPH WILL ALSO OCCUR ALONG THE FOOTHILLS. DRY AND WARMER CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL ACROSS THE PLAINS WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE 50S. WINDS WILL GUST TO AROUND 35 MPH NEAR THE FOOTHILLS AND ALONG THE WYOMING BORDER. A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL THEN SLIDE SOUTH ACROSS THE AREA AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY STRONG CHINOOK WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE FRONT RANGE FOOTHILLS STARTING LATE FRIDAY AFTERNOON OR EVENING AND THEN CONTINUING INTO SATURDAY MORNING. THE WINDS WILL BE VARIABLE...BUT OCCASIONAL WIND GUSTS UP TO 80 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE. IN THE MOUNTAINS GENERALLY LIGHT SNOW IS EXPECTED FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY. STRONG WINDS WILL STILL PRODUCE BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW AND LOCALLY REDUCED VISIBILITIES OVER THE HIGHER MOUNTAINS AND PASSES. ANOTHER FAST MOVING STORM SYSTEM WILL BRING MORE SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW TO THE HIGH COUNTRY SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT. THEN MAINLY DRY WEATHER WILL PREVAIL UNTIL SOMETIME IN THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK WHEN THE NEXT STORM SYSTEM MAY REACH THE AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT. GIMMESTAD
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
913 PM MST THU FEB 13 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0830 PM SNOW 2 SSE TABERNASH 39.95N 105.84W
02/13/2014 M4.0 INCH GRAND CO TRAINED SPOTTER
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JKPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
1137 PM MST THU FEB 13 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1107 PM SNOW BERGEN PARK 39.69N 105.36W
02/13/2014 M1.0 INCH JEFFERSON CO TRAINED SPOTTER
LAST 45 MINUTES
0830 PM SNOW 2 SSE TABERNASH 39.95N 105.84W
02/13/2014 M4.0 INCH GRAND CO TRAINED SPOTTER
&&The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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