twelve inches of snow 7 miles to the east-southeast of Texas Creek and thirteen inches of snow was measured 5 miles to the west of Westcliffe.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS PUB wrote it up.
A strong Spring winter storm produced five to six inches of snow at Monument and Rye...seven to nine inches near the communities of Beulah and Rosita...ten inches near Leadville...eleven inches of snow in Westcliffe...twelve inches of snow 7 miles to the east-southeast of Texas Creek and thirteen inches of snow was measured 5 miles to the west of Westcliffe.
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 May 11, 4:17 AM MST, 1 hour 43 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 517 AM MDT SUN MAY 11 2014 .SHORT TERM...(TODAY AND TONIGHT) ISSUED AT 344 AM MDT SUN MAY 11 2014 ...SIGNIFICANT LATE SEASON WINTER STORM TO AFFECT MOST OF THE REGION NEXT 24H... CURRENTLY... UPPER LEVEL LOW WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHERN NEVADA AND WAS MOVING EAST- SOUTHEAST. STRONG SW FLOW ALOFT WAS OVER THE STATE. A BOUNDARY WAS LOCATED OVER THE CWA AND EXTEND MAINLY E-W ACROSS THE RATON MESA REGION. THE PRIMARY SFC CIRCULATION WAS NOTED SOUTH OF KLHX. ALOFT AT ~700 MB...A TROUGH WAS NOTED EXTENDING SW=NE ACROSS NORTHEASTERN CO...AND THIS IS WHERE MOST OF THE PRECIP WAS FALLING AT THIS HOUR...5 AM. TEMPS ACROSS THE REGION WERE RELATIVELY MILD WITH 50S MOST PLAINS LOCATIONS...40S EL PASO COUNTY. MTN VALLEYS WERE ALSO MILD WITH 40S AND 50S BEING OBSERVED. EVEN KLXV WAS 40F. TODAY AND TONIGHT... UPPER LOW WILL GRADUALLY SHIFT EASTWARD AND THEN EAST-NORTHEASTWARD AND IS FCST TO MOVE OVER THE STATE TODAY AND TONIGHT. BASED ON CURRENT SHORT RANGE SIMULATIONS...THE SIGNIFICANT PRECIP WILL MOVE INTO THE PIKES PEAK REGION AROUND NOON. WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO PICK UP SIGNIFICANTLY FROM THE NORTH AND BECOME GUSTY AT 20 TO 40 MPH. THE ONLY CHANGE I MADE TO THE WINTER PRECIP HILITES WAS TO ISSUE A WINTER WX ADVISORY FOR S EL PASO COUNTY. SNOWFALL WILL LIKELY VARY FROM 1 MAYBE 6 INCHES IN THIS ZONE....WITH MOST ACCUMS ON GRASSY AREA. MAIN CONCERN IS THE WIND DRIVEN SNOW AS SOUNDINGS SHOW CHANGEOVER RELATIVELY RAPIDLY AFTER THE NOON HOUR ACROSS THE KCOS AREA. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT A LOT OF FORCING WILL LIKELY OCCUR OVER THE PIKES PEAK/PALMER DVD REGION AND THIS AREA COULD RECEIVE QUITE A BIT OF SNOW AND WIND FROM LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. TRAVEL ACROSS MONUMENT HILL WILL BE DIFFICULT BY AFTERNOON AND INTO TONIGHT. WE COULD SEE SOME DAMAGE/POWER OUTAGES DUE TO FALLING SNOW LADEN DECIDUOUS TREES. THE FAR SE PLAINS WILL LIKELY WARM UP SIGNIFICANTLY WITH 80S POSSIBLE ACROSS FAR SE BACA COUNTY. THIS AREA MAY REACH MARGINAL CRITICAL FIRE WX CRITERIA THIS AFTERNOON BEFORE THE FRONT BLAST ACROSS LATE THIS AFTERNOON. UNFORTUNATELY...NOT MUCH IN THE WAY OF ANY SIGNIF PRECIP IS LIKELY FOR THE FAR SE CO PLAINS DURING THE NEXT 24 AS THE BRUNT OF THE ACTIVITY WILL FALL GENERALLY N AND W OF A LINE FROM TRINIDAD TO LA JUNTA. SINCE FREEZING TEMPS ARE EXPECTED TONITE ALONG THE I-25 CORRIDOR...I ISSUED FREEZE WARNINGS FOR ALL OF THE I-25 CORRIDOR AND EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY. SOME OF THESE AREAS WILL RECEIVE SIGNIFICANT SNOW (AND ARE IN WINTER PRECIP HILITES) WHILE OTHER AREAS WILL RECEIVE LESSER AMOUNTS OF SNOW (AND ARE NOT IN ANY WINTER PRECIP HILITES). FOR CONSISTENCY...ISSUED THE FREEZE WARNING FOR ALL AREAS ON THE PLAINS THAT I EXPECT TO REACH AT OR BELOW FREEZING. \/HODANISH .LONG TERM...(MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY) ISSUED AT 344 AM MDT SUN MAY 11 2014 MODELS IN DECENT AGREEMENT THROUGH THE EXTENDED WITH A HIGHLY AMPLIFIED PATTERN ACROSS THE CONUS. AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH STRETCHING FROM THE NORTHERN PLAINS TO THE DESERT SOUTHWEST WILL SLOWLY SHIFT EAST INTO THE GREAT LAKES REGION MONDAY INTO TUESDAY WHILE HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS ALONG THE WEST COAST. EXPECT ACTIVE WEATHER TO START THE DAY ON MONDAY ACROSS ALL OF SOUTHERN COLORADO AS THE UPPER STORM SYSTEM IS OVERHEAD. SNOW WILL BE ONGOING ACROSS THE MOUNTAIN AREAS AND ALL SOLUTIONS HAVE DECENT PRECIPITATION ACROSS THE PALMER DIVIDE...SOUTH ALONG THE I-25 CORRIDOR EARLY IN THE DAY. TEMPERATURES WILL BE COLD SO MOST OF THE AREA WILL SEE SNOW EARLY ON. AS THE UPPER SYSTEM BEGINS TO SHIFT EAST...PRECIPITATION WILL LIKELY COME TO AN END ACROSS THE PLAINS BY MONDAY AFTERNOON. IT WILL BE WINDY ACROSS THE PLAINS...WITH WIDESPREAD GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH...ESPECIALLY OUT NEAR THE KANSAS BORDER. TEMPERATURES ON MONDAY WILL BE COOL...WITH MOST AREAS IN THE MID 40S FOR HIGHS. SNOW WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE MOUNTAIN AREAS MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY. A DISTURBANCE IN THE BACKSIDE NORTHWEST FLOW WILL BRING AN ENHANCED ROUND OF SNOW TO THE MOUNTAINS MONDAY NIGHT WHERE SEVERAL MORE INCHES OF SNOW ARE LIKELY. FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE PLAINS MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY MORNING. SOME MODEL GUIDANCE HAS MID 20S FOR THE COLORADO SPRINGS AND PUEBLO AREA. TEMPERATURES WILL WARM SLIGHTLY TUESDAY AFTERNOON ACROSS THE REGION WITH 50S FOR HIGHS. THE PATTERN WILL REMAIN AMPLIFIED WITH THE UPPER STORM SYSTEM STALLING OVER THE GREAT LAKES AND HIGH PRESSURE ALONG THE WEST COAST. THIS WILL PUT SOUTHERN COLORADO UNDER BROAD AND PERSISTENT NORTHWEST FLOW THROUGH FRIDAY. MODELS HAVE WEAK ENERGY MOVING THROUGH THE FLOW WITH PERIODS OF LIGHT HIGH ELEVATION SNOW. PRECIPITATION CHANCES FOR THE PLAINS ARE A LITTLE MORE QUESTIONABLE. THE BEST CHANCE FOR LIGHT PRECIPITATION ACROSS THE PLAINS WILL LIKELY BE LATE THURSDAY AFTERNOON INTO FRIDAY MORNING. TEMPERATURES WILL MODERATE WEDNESDAY INTO FRIDAY WITH 60S TO 70S FOR HIGHS ACROSS THE PLAINS. THE PATTERN BEGINS TO SHIFT LATE FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY WITH A STORM SYSTEM MOVING INTO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. THIS WILL FORCE THE HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE WEST COAST INTO THE ROCKIES. INCREASING WESTERLY FLOW WILL HELP WITH AFTERNOON MIXING WITH WARMER AIR ACROSS THE REGION. TEMPERATURES WILL LIKELY CLIMB BACK INTO THE 80S TO POSSIBLY LOWER 90S SATURDAY AFTERNOON. MOZLEY && .AVIATION...(FOR THE 12Z TAFS THROUGH 12Z MONDAY MORNING) ISSUED AT 344 AM MDT SUN MAY 11 2014 ALL TAF SITES WILL BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM. KCOS WILL BEAR THE BRUNT OF IT AS SNOW WILL LIKELY DEVELOP SHORTLY AFTER NOONTIME AND COULD CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE NIGHTTIME HOURS. WINDS WILL ALSO BE AN ISSUE AS WE WILL LIKELY SEE NORTH WINDS OF 25 TO 35 KNTS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. DUE TO THE COLD TEMPS...THE SNOW WILL LIKELY ACCUMULATE LATER TODAY AND TONITE. IFR CONDITIONS ARE LIKELY. KPUB WILL LIKELY SEE RAIN TODAY CHANGING TO SNOW TONITE. SOME ACCUMULATIONS ARE POSSIBLE...MAINLY ON GRASSY AREAS. IFR IS LIKELY LATER TODAY AND TONITE. STRONG GUSTY NORTH WINDS WILL OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONITE. KALS WILL SEE ONLY SCTD SHOWERS/POSSIBLE TSRA LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND POSSIBLY SOME SHOWER TONITE. && .PUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WINTER STORM WARNING UNTIL 9 AM MDT MONDAY FOR COZ058>061. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FROM NOON TODAY TO 9 AM MDT MONDAY FOR COZ072-074-075-077>079. WINTER STORM WARNING FROM NOON TODAY TO 9 AM MDT MONDAY FOR COZ073-076-080. FREEZE WARNING FROM 9 PM THIS EVENING TO 8 AM MDT MONDAY FOR COZ083>088-094. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 6 AM MDT MONDAY FOR COZ066-068. WINTER STORM WARNING UNTIL 9 AM MDT MONDAY FOR COZ081-082. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 AM MDT MONDAY FOR COZ085. WINTER STORM WARNING FROM 9 AM THIS MORNING TO 9 AM MDT MONDAY FOR COZ062-063-084. && SHORT TERM...HODANISH LONG TERM...MOZLEY AVIATION...HODANISH
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 648 AM MDT SUN MAY 11 2014 COZ058>089-093>099-121300- WESTERN MOSQUITO RANGE/EAST LAKE COUNTY ABOVE 11000 FT- LEADVILLE VICINITY/LAKE COUNTY BELOW 11000 FT- EASTERN SAWATCH MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FT- WESTERN CHAFFEE COUNTY BETWEEN 9000 AND 11000 FT- CENTRAL CHAFFEE COUNTY BELOW 9000 FT- WESTERN MOSQUITO RANGE/EAST CHAFFEE COUNTY ABOVE 9000 FT- SAGUACHE COUNTY WEST OF CONTINENTAL DIVIDE BELOW 10000 FT- SAGUACHE COUNTY EAST OF CONTINENTAL DIVIDE BELOW 10000 FT- LA GARITA MOUNTAINS ABOVE 10000 FT- UPPER RIO GRANDE VALLEY/EASTERN SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS BELOW 10000 FT- EASTERN SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS ABOVE 10000 FT- DEL NORTE VICINITY/NORTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- ALAMOSA VICINITY/CENTRAL SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- SOUTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY- NORTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 8500 AND 11000 FT- NORTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FEET- SOUTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 7500 AND 11000 FT- SOUTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FT- NORTHWESTERN FREMONT COUNTY ABOVE 8500 FT- WESTERN/CENTRAL FREMONT COUNTY BELOW 8500 FT- WET MOUNTAIN VALLEY BELOW 8500 FEET- WET MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 6300 AND 10000 FT- WET MOUNTAINS ABOVE 10000 FT- TELLER COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE ABOVE 7500 FT/PIKES PEAK BETWEEN 7500 AND 11000 FT-PIKES PEAK ABOVE 11000 FT- CANON CITY VICINITY/EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY- NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/MONUMENT RIDGE/RAMPART RANGE BELOW 7500 FT- COLORADO SPRINGS VICINITY/SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE BELOW 7400 FT-PUEBLO AND VICINITY/PUEBLO COUNTY BELOW 6300 FT- WALSENBURG VICINITY/UPPER HUERFANO RIVER BASIN BELOW 7500 FT- TRINIDAD VICINITY/WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY BELOW 7500 FT- CROWLEY COUNTY-LA JUNTA VICINITY/OTERO COUNTY- EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY-WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY- EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY-LAS ANIMAS VICINITY/BENT COUNTY- LAMAR VICINITY/PROWERS COUNTY-SPRINGFIELD VICINITY/BACA COUNTY- 648 AM MDT SUN MAY 11 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...EAST CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SNOW...HEAVY AT TIMES...WILL OCCUR TODAY ACROSS THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE. THE HEAVIEST SNOW WILL OCCUR ACROSS THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS WHERE 1 TO 2 FEET WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH SUNRISE MONDAY. ACROSS THE VALLEY FLOOR OF THE UPPER ARKANSAS RIVER VALLEY...SNOWFALL AMOUNTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 1 TO 2 INCHES IN SALIDA...3 TO 6 INCHES IN BUENA VISTA...AND UP TO A FOOT IN AND AROUND LEADVILLE. LOCALLY HEAVY SNOW WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE NORTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS THE WET MOUNTAINS...AND THE PIKES PEAK REGION. GENERALLY 8 TO 16 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE AT THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS. SNOW WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE ACROSS EL PASO COUNTY...ESPECIALLY AREAS ABOVE 6000 FEET. 4 TO LOCALLY 8 INCHES OF SNOW WILL BE POSSIBLE. WINDS OF 20 TO 40 MPH WILL CAUSE REDUCED VISIBILITY DUE TO BLOWING SNOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY SNOW WILL BE ONGOING MONDAY MORNING ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS AND ADJACENT PLAINS...INCLUDING THE PALMER DIVIDE AND INTERSTATE 25 CORRIDOR. EXPECT SNOW TO DECREASE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND COME TO AN END ACROSS THE PLAIN ON MONDAY...WHILE LIGHT SNOW CONTINUES ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS INTO TUESDAY. SNOW COULD BE HEAVY AT TIMES OVER THE MOUNTAINS...ESPECIALLY MONDAY NIGHT. SEVERAL INCHES OF SNOW ARE POSSIBLE ALONG THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY. IN ADDITION...COLD AIR WILL SETTLE ACROSS THE PLAINS MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY MORNING. TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO FALL BELOW FREEZING ACROSS MUCH OF THE PLAINS. THOSE WITH SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS OR EXPOSED SPRINKLER SYSTEMS WILL NEED TO TAKE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT THEIR PROPERTY. PERIODS OF LIGHT SNOW WILL CONTINUE THROUGH FRIDAY FOR THE MOUNTAINS. MINOR ACCUMULATIONS ARE POSSIBLE. AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE EASTERN PLAINS THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER CONDITIONS THAT MEET REPORTING CRITERIA FOR SPOTTERS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS ALL OF THE MOUNTAINS...THE UPPER ARKANSAS RIVER VALLEY AND MOST OF EL PASO COUNTY. 34/88
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
13 winter storm. Local standard time, as filed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Colorado in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in Colorado, May 2014
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: 521091, 521092, 521093, 521094, 521095, 521102, 521101, 521100, 521098, 521099, 521103, 521096, 521097.