Colorado, 2025Heavy Snow in Colorado, April 4 to 5, 2025
April 4 to 5, 2025 · NWS PUB · 8 events in 8 counties and zones
Behind a departing upper-level jet maximum, a deep upper trough dug in over the Four Corners Region, bringing additional snowfall to much of southeast Colorado.
Every event with a place to put it; 8 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 8
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.
Behind a departing upper-level jet maximum, a deep upper trough dug in over the Four Corners Region, bringing additional snowfall to much of southeast Colorado.
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 Apr 4, 1:45 PM MST, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 4, 1:45 PM MST, 1 hour 15 minutes before
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</html>Heavy Snow, Wet Mountains Between 8500 and 10000 Ft
- When
- April 4, 3:00 PM MST to April 5, 3:00 PM 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)
There was 14.0 inches of snow measured.
Heavy Snow, Westcliffe Vicinity / Wet Mountain Valley Below 8500 Ft
- When
- April 4, 3:00 PM MST to April 5, 3:00 PM MST
- Where
- Westcliffe Vicinity / Wet Mountain Valley Below 8500 Ft forecast zone
- Reported by
- CoCoRaHS
- Coordinates
- 37.897, -105.164 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
There was 4.0 inches of snow measured.
Heavy Snow, Southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains Between 7500 & 11000 Ft
- When
- April 4, 3:00 PM MST to April 5, 3:00 PM 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)
There was 18.3 inches of snow measured.
Heavy Snow, Southern San Luis Valley
- When
- April 4, 3:00 PM MST to April 5, 3:00 PM MST
- Where
- Southern San Luis Valley forecast zone
- Reported by
- CoCoRaHS
- Coordinates
- 37.240, -105.810 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
There was 3.9 inches of snow measured.
Heavy Snow, Pueblo Vicinity / Pueblo County Below 6300 Ft
- When
- April 4, 3:00 PM MST to April 5, 3:00 PM MST
- Where
- Pueblo Vicinity / Pueblo County Below 6300 Ft forecast zone
- Reported by
- CoCoRaHS
- Coordinates
- 38.173, -104.513 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
There was 4.0 inches of snow measured.
Heavy Snow, Walsenburg Vicinity / Upper Huerfano River Basin Below 7500 Ft
- When
- April 4, 6:00 PM MST to April 5, 3:00 PM MST
- Where
- Walsenburg Vicinity / Upper Huerfano River Basin Below 7500 Ft forecast zone
- Reported by
- COOP Observer
- Coordinates
- 37.685, -104.961 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
There was 4.0 inches of snow measured.
Heavy Snow, Trinidad Vicinity / Lower Huerfano River Basin & Western Las Animas County Below 7500 Ft
- When
- April 4, 6:00 PM MST to April 5, 3:00 PM MST
- Where
- Trinidad Vicinity / Lower Huerfano River Basin & Western Las Animas County Below 7500 Ft forecast zone
- Reported by
- CoCoRaHS
- Coordinates
- 37.316, -104.039 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
There was 6.0 inches of snow measured.
Heavy Snow, Central Chaffee County Below 9000 Ft
- When
- April 4, 6:00 PM MST to April 5, 12:00 PM MST
- Where
- Central Chaffee County Below 9000 Ft forecast zone
- Reported by
- CoCoRaHS
- Coordinates
- 38.747, -106.194 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
There was 5.5 inches of snow measured.
- Heavy Snow
- Snowfall reaching the local warning threshold without the other hazards of a winter storm.
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