Winter Storm — Northwest Fremont County Above 8500 Ft, Colorado

2005-01-28 to 2005-01-31 · Northwest Fremont County Above 8500 Ft, Colorado

Wider weather episode

A slow moving winter storm deposited substantial amounts of heavy wet snow (in the range of a 10 to 1 ratio) over portions of southern Colorado. Some of the higher snow amounts follow: 9 inches at Maysville in Chaffee County and Canon City in Fremont County...10 inches in Black Forest in El Paso County...11 inches west of downtown Colorado Springs in El Paso County...12 inches 8 miles southwest of Fort Carson in El Paso County...14 inches near Woodland Park...15 to 18 inches in parts of the Wet Mountain Valley around Westcliffe...16 inches around Monument in El Paso County...20 inches 12 miles west-northwest of Trinidad in Las Animas County...24 inches in La Veta in Huerfano County...25 inches around Colorado City in Pueblo County and Walsenburg in Huerfano County...Rye with 38 inches... and Cuchara with 49 inches.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 5435028. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.