A cold and moist upper level low pressure system brought widespread rain and snow with locally heavy snow falling over the higher mountains in western Colorado.
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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 GJT wrote it up.
A cold and moist upper level low pressure system brought widespread rain and snow with locally heavy snow falling over the higher mountains in western Colorado.
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 Grand Junction, CO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 26, 4:17 PM MST, 21 hours 43 minutes earlier.
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</html>The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
6 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
Estimated snowfall amounts ranged from 3 to 6 inches with the heaviest accumulations above 10,000 feet.
Colorado Department of Transportation webcams showed icy, slushy and snow packed conditions along Highways 145 and 550 above 9000 feet. Remote sensors estimated snowfall amounts ranging from 2 to 6 inches.
Colorado Department of Transportation web cameras showed slushy and snow packed conditions along Highway 65 on to of the Grand Mesa. Spotters and SNOTELS reported snowfall amounts ranging from 2 to 6 inches.
Snowfall amounts ranged from 6 to 12 inches with slushy and snow packed conditions observed over Rabbit Ears Pass.
Estimated snowfall amounts ranged from 2 to 6 inches across the zone.
Colorado Department of Transportation officials issued traction and chain laws over Vail Pass due to icy, slushy and snow packed conditions resulting in significant impacts to travel. Snowfall amounts ranged between 4 and 8 inches with the greatest amounts above 10,000 ft.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Colorado in 2019Every state in 2019This day in weather historyWarnings in Colorado, May 2019
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: 815692, 815691, 815688, 815687, 815690, 815689.