URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER/BOULDER CO
920 AM MDT MON APR 22 2013
...ANOTHER ROUND OF WINTER WEATHER MOVING INTO THE MOUNTAINS AND
FOOTHILLS AND URBAN CORRIDOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...
.A STORM SYSTEM ORGANIZING OVER NORTHERN UTAH AND SOUTHWEST
WYOMING THIS MORNING WILL MOVE INTO THE MOUNTAINS OF NORTH
CENTRAL COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A STRONG CANADIAN
COLD FRONT ACCOMPANYING THIS STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE INTO THE
DENVER AREA THIS MORNING...WITH MUCH COLDER TEMPERATURES AND GUSTY
NORTH TO NORTHEAST WINDS BEHIND IT. THESE TWO WEATHER MAKERS WILL
COMBINE TO PRODUCE SNOW...POSSIBLY HEAVY AT TIMES...IN THE
MOUNTAINS AND FRONT RANGE FOOTHILLS...AND URBAN CORRIDOR THIS
AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS MAY ALSO PRODUCE
AREAS OF BLOWING SNOW.
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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-LARIMER AND BOULDER COUNTIES BETWEEN 6000 AND 9000 FEET- JEFFERSON AND WEST DOUGLAS COUNTIES ABOVE 6000 FEET/GILPIN/CLEAR
CREEK/NORTHEAST PARK COUNTIES BELOW 9000 FEET- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...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...ESTES PARK...GLENDEVEY...
NEDERLAND...RED FEATHER LAKES...BAILEY...CENTRAL CITY... EVERGREEN...GEORGETOWN...IDAHO SPRINGS...WESTCREEK
920 AM MDT MON APR 22 2013
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 AM MDT
TUESDAY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM
WARNING FOR SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON
TODAY TO 6 AM MDT TUESDAY. THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS NO
LONGER IN EFFECT.
* TIMING...SNOW WILL INCREASE FROM NORTH TO SOUTH ACROSS THE
MOUNTAINS TODAY...AND POSSIBLY BECOME HEAVY AT TIMES THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
* SNOW ACCUMULATIONS...TOTALS WILL RANGE FROM 8 TO 14 INCHES BY
TUESDAY MORNING...HEAVIEST IN THE FOOTHILLS AND ON HIGHER EAST
SLOPES OF THE FRONT RANGE MOUNTAINS.
* WIND/VISIBILITY...NORTHEAST WINDS 10 TO 20 MPH CAN BE
EXPECTED. HIGHER GUSTS ON MOUNTAIN RIDGES AND PASSES MAY ALSO
PRODUCE AREAS OF BLOWING SNOW LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
* IMPACTS...ROADWAYS WILL BECOME ICY AND SNOWPACKED. IF TRAVELING
INTO THE WARNING AREA...BE PREPARED FOR SLOW AND HAZARDOUS
DRIVING CONDITIONS. ADEQUATE SNOW TIRES OR TIRE CHAINS MAY BE
REQUIRED ON THE HIGH MOUNTAIN PASSES TONIGHT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR HEAVY SNOW MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER
CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF
SNOW ARE FORECAST THAT WILL MAKE TRAVEL DANGEROUS. ONLY TRAVEL IN
AN EMERGENCY. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL...KEEP AN EXTRA FLASHLIGHT...
FOOD...AND WATER IN YOUR VEHICLE IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY.
