Colorado, 2022Heavy Snow and High Wind in Colorado, March 21 to 22, 2022
March 21 to 22, 2022 · NWS PUB · 3 events in 3 counties and zones
Another day of strong gusty, damaging winds across portions of southern Colorado on March 22.
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
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.
Another day of strong gusty, damaging winds across portions of southern Colorado on March 22.
What forecasters said that day
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 Mar 21, 3:07 AM MST, 2 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 21, 3:07 AM MST, 2 hours 53 minutes before
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Local storm report, Mar 21, 4:57 AM MST, 1 hour 3 minutes before
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</html>Heavy Snow, Southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains Between 7500 & 11000 Ft
- When
- March 21, 6:00 AM MST to March 22, 6:00 AM MST
- Where
- Southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains Between 7500 & 11000 Ft forecast zone
- Reported by
- CoCoRaHS
- Coordinates
- 37.426, -104.809 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy snow of 14.6 inches, 7 miles northwest of Cuchara.
Heavy Snow, Wet Mountains Between 8500 and 10000 Ft
- When
- March 21, 8:00 AM MST to March 22, 7:14 AM MST
- Where
- Wet Mountains Between 8500 and 10000 Ft forecast zone
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 38.110, -105.070 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy snow of 11.6 inches, 7 miles northwest of San Isabel.
High Wind, Springfield Vicinity / Baca County
- When
- March 22, 12:59 PM MST to 1:00 PM MST
- Where
- Springfield Vicinity / Baca County forecast zone
- Measured
- 59 kt (68 mph) measured gust
- Reported by
- AWOS
- Coordinates
- 37.319, -102.560 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
- Heavy Snow
- Snowfall reaching the local warning threshold without the other hazards of a winter storm.
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1017511, 1017512, 1014895.