URGENT – WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER/BOULDER CO… FRI MAY 9 2014
A STRONG STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE INTO THE GREAT BASIN SATURDAY NIGHT AND SLOWLY MOVE EASTWARD SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT. WIDESPREAD RAIN AND MOUNTAIN SNOW EXPECTED OVER NORTHERN COLORADO AND WYOMING SATURDAY NIGHT. PRECIPITATION AND COLD AIR WILL SPREAD SOUTH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY. RAIN IS EXPECTED TO QUICKLY CHANGE TO SNOW IN THE FOOTHILLS. SNOWFALL AMOUNTS MAY GREATLY VARY DEPENDING ON WHEN THE RAIN CHANGES TO SNOW.
SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST GRAND/WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST BOULDER/ GILPIN/ CLEAR CREEK/SUMMIT/NORTH AND WEST PARK COUNTIES ABOVE 9000 FEET-JEFFERSON AND WEST DOUGLAS COUNTIES ABOVE 6000 FEET/GILPIN/CLEAR CREEK/NORTHEAST PARK COUNTIES BELOW 9000 FEET-
CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST PARK COUNTY-LARIMER COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET/ NORTHWEST WELD COUNTY-BOULDER AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES BELOW 6000 FEET/WEST BROOMFIELD COUNTY-NORTH DOUGLAS COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET/ DENVER/WEST ADAMS AND ARAPAHOE COUNTIES/EAST BROOMFIELD COUNTY-
ELBERT/CENTRAL AND EAST DOUGLAS COUNTIES ABOVE 6000 FEET-CENTRAL AND SOUTH WELD COUNTY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF…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… BAILEY… CENTRAL CITY… EVERGREEN… GEORGETOWN… IDAHO SPRINGS… WESTCREEK…FAIRPLAY…HARTSEL…LAKE GEORGE…SOUTH PARK… FORT COLLINS… HEREFORD… LOVELAND… NUNN… ARVADA… BOULDER…GOLDEN… LAKEWOOD… LONGMONT… AURORA… BRIGHTON… CITY OF DENVER… DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT… HIGHLANDS RANCH… LITTLETON… PARKER… CASTLE ROCK…ELBERT… FONDIS… KIOWA… LARKSPUR… EATON… FORT LUPTON… GREELEY… ROGGEN
430 AM MDT FRI MAY 9 2014
* SNOW ACCUMULATIONS…4 TO 9 INCHES POSSIBLE FOR LOWER ELEVATIONS AND SOUTH PARK…WITH 9 TO 18 INCHES POSSIBLE FOR THE FOOTHILLS…AND 12 TO 24 INCHES POSSIBLE FOR THE MOUNTAINS.
* WIND/VISIBILITY…HEAVY SNOW COMBINED WITH NORTHEAST WINDS UP TO 30 MPH MAY REDUCED VISIBILITY BELOW A QUARTER MILE AT TIMES.
* IMPACTS…IF TRAVELING SUNDAY OR SUNDAY NIGHT… EXPECT SLUSHY AND SNOW COVERED ROADS… ESPECIALLY IN THE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS. SOME ROADS IN THE FOOTHILLS AND MOUNTAINS MAY CLOSE DUE TO HEAVY SNOW. THE HEAVY SNOW WILL ACCUMULATE ON BRANCHES AND POWERLINES POSSIBLY CAUSING SOME TO BREAK.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/bou/
Thanks to Kenneth Lund for this link