Winter Storm in Eastern Las Animas County, Colorado

A storm system generated snow, heavy at times, across to portions of southern Colorado. Wind whipped snow occurred across the far eastern plains in portions of Kiowa and Las Animas Counties, and all of Prowers and Baca Counties causing major impacts. Elsewhere, heavier snow totals included...6 inches at Monarch Pass and Buena Vista (Chaffee County)...7 inches near Leadville (Lake County)...9 inches at the summit of Wolf Creek Pass (Mineral County)...Salida (Chafee County) and near Westcliffe (Custer County) and 12 inches at Maysville (Chaffee County).