URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER/BOULDER CO
319 AM MDT WED OCT 1 2014
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING
FOR THE NORTH CENTRAL MOUNTAINS OF COLORADO ABOVE 10 THOUSAND
FEET...
.A STORM SYSTEM ORGANIZING OVER UTAH EARLY THIS MORNING IS
EXPECTED TO STRENGTHEN AS IT TRACKS EAST ACROSS COLORADO TODAY.
AS THE STORM PASSES TEMPERATURES ARE LIKELY TO FALL CAUSING RAIN
TO CHANGE TO SNOW AT ELEVATIONS GENERALLY ABOVE 10000 FEET DURING
THE DAY AND AS LOW AS 8500 TO 9000 FEET THIS EVENING. AREAS ABOVE
10000 FEET ARE MOST LIKELY TO SEE ACCUMULATING SNOWFALL. ROADWAYS
OVER THE HIGH MOUNTAIN PASSES SUCH AS LOVELAND...HOOSIER...BERTHOUD
AND CAMERON PASSES...AND UP AROUND THE EISENHOWER TUNNEL ARE
EXPECTED TO BECOME ICY AND SNOW COVERED LATER THIS AFTERNOON AS
SNOWFALL MAY BECOME MODERATE TO HEAVY AT TIMES IN THESE AREAS.
SNOWFALL IS EXPECTED TO DIMINISH AFTER MIDNIGHT WITH THIS STORM
SYSTEM EXITING THE STATE.
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WEST JACKSON AND WEST GRAND COUNTIES ABOVE 9000 FEET-
SOUTH AND EAST JACKSON/LARIMER/NORTH AND NORTHEAST GRAND/
NORTHWEST BOULDER COUNTIES ABOVE 9000 FEET-
SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST GRAND/WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST BOULDER/ GILPIN/CLEAR CREEK/SUMMIT/NORTH AND WEST PARK COUNTIES ABOVE
9000 FEET-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...
EAST SLOPES PARK AND NORTHERN GORE RANGES...GORE PASS...
RABBIT EARS PASS...CAMERON PASS...
LARAMIE AND MEDICINE BOW MOUNTAINS...RABBIT EARS RANGE...
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK...WILLOW CREEK PASS...
BERTHOUD PASS...BRECKENRIDGE...EAST SLOPES MOSQUITO RANGE...
EAST SLOPES SOUTHERN GORE RANGE...EISENHOWER TUNNEL...
INDIAN PEAKS...KENOSHA MOUNTAINS...MOUNT EVANS...
WILLIAMS FORK MOUNTAINS...WINTER PARK
319 AM MDT WED OCT 1 2014
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO MIDNIGHT
MDT TONIGHT...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A WINTER
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO
MIDNIGHT MDT TONIGHT.
* TIMING...FROM 12 PM MDT TODAY TO 12 AM MDT TONIGHT
* SNOW ACCUMULATIONS...4 TO 7 INCHES FOR AREAS ABOVE 10 THOUSAND
FEET IN THE NORTH CENTRAL MOUNTAINS
* WIND/VISIBILITY...WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH MAY
CAUSE MINOR BLOWING OF SNOW ON THE HIGH MOUNTAIN PASSES
* IMPACTS...ROADS OVER THE HIGH PASSES MAY BECOME ICY AND SNOW
COVERED MAKING TRAVEL DIFFICULT. BURSTS OF HEAVY SNOWFALL THIS
AFTERNOON MAY ALSO REDUCE VISIBILITIES TO UNDER THAN A FEW
HUNDRED FEET AT TIMES.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW MEANS THAT PERIODS OF SNOW
WILL CAUSE PRIMARILY TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR SNOW
COVERED ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES...AND USE CAUTION WHILE
DRIVING.
