Colorado, 2024Heavy Snow in Colorado, March 7, 2024
March 7, 2024 · NWS GLD · 1 event in 1 county or zone
A low pressure system moved across Eastern Colorado producing heavy snow, mainly across Yuma County, Colorado. 5 inches near the city of Yuma over a duration just over 17 hours.
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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A low pressure system moved across Eastern Colorado producing heavy snow, mainly across Yuma County, Colorado. Snow amounts ranged from 4.5 inches in the southeast corner of the county to 11.5 inches near the city of Yuma over a duration just over 17 hours. Kit Carson County also received snowfall with reported amounts ranging from four to five inches, mainly over the western half of the county.
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 Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 7, 12:35 AM MST, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 7, 12:35 AM MST, 1 hour 10 minutes before
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</html>Heavy Snow, Yuma County
- When
- March 7, 1:45 AM MST to 7:00 PM MST
- Where
- Yuma County forecast zone
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- Public
- Coordinates
- 40.003, -102.424 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
A low pressure system moved across Eastern Colorado producing heavy snow, mainly across Yuma County, Colorado. Snow amounts ranged from 4.5 inches in the southeast corner of the county to 11.5 inches near the city of Yuma over a duration just over 17 hours.
Key impacts: heavy snow, visibility reduction, and hazardous travel.
- Heavy Snow
- Snowfall reaching the local warning threshold without the other hazards of a winter storm.
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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1163056.