Severe Weather and Heavy Rain Along the Central Gulf Coast; Pacific Storm in the Northwest

Showers and thunderstorms pose a risk for a couple of tornadoes, occasional damaging gusts, and some scattered flash flooding along the central Gulf Coast. A Pacific storm system continues to bring gusty winds, lower elevation rain, and hazardous mountain snow to the northwestern U.S.. Read More >

Our area of responsibility covers southeast and south central Colorado. The counties in our area of responsibility are:

Alamosa, Bent, Baca, Costilla, Conejos, Crowley, Custer, Chaffee, El Paso, Fremont, Huerfano, Kiowa, Las Animas, Lake, Mineral, Otero, Prowers, Pueblo, Rio Grande, Saguache and Teller

The topography of our area is extremely diverse, as you can see from the topographic map below.

We recently realigned our zones to reflect the topography better. Many of our zone lines are based on an elevation contour. For a more detailed map showing our zones and related elevations, click on the thumbnail below.

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Our products are issued either by zone or by county. Zone codes are listed in the above table. County names, and associated FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) codes, are pictured below.

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Severe Weather and Heavy Rain Along the Central Gulf Coast; Pacific Storm in the Northwest

National Weather Service Pueblo, CO Forecast Area of Responsibility