Southwestern Tablelands

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| name = Southwestern Tablelands

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| country = United States

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| state = Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas

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|region_type = State

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{{cite book |last1 = Hoekstra |first1 = J. M. |last2 = Molnar |first2 = J. L. |last3 = Jennings |first3 = M. |last4 = Revenga |first4 = C. |last5 = Spalding |first5 = M. D. |last6 = Boucher |first6 = T. M. |last7 = Robertson |first7 = J. C. |last8 = Heibel |first8 = T. J. |last9 = Ellison |first9 = K. |title = The Atlas of Global Conservation: Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities to Make a Difference |publisher = University of California Press |editor1-last = Molnar |editor1-first = J. L. |year = 2010 |isbn = 978-0-520-26256-0 |url = https://archive.org/details/atlasofglobalcon0000unse |url-access = registration }}

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| ecozone = Nearctic

| map = Level III ecoregions, United States.png

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| map_caption = Central Great Plains (area 26 on the map)

|border=Western High Plains to the north and south of the Southwestern Tablelands corridor

|border1=Central Great Plains to the east

|border2=Southern Rockies to the northwest

|border3=Arizona/New Mexico Plateau a very small portion to the central west

|border4=Arizona/New Mexico Mountains and Chihuahuan Desert to the south-southwest

|border5=Edwards Plateau to the southeast

|border6=Central Great Plains to the east

| climate = Cold semi-arid

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The southwestern tablelands comprise an ecoregion running from east-central to south-east Colorado, east-central and a small portion of eastern New Mexico, some eastern portions of the Oklahoma Panhandle, far south-central Kansas, and portions of northwest Texas. This ecoregion has a "cold semiarid" climate (Köppen BSk). Some years, a National Weather Service dust storm warning is issued in parts of Texas due to a dust storm originating from the lower part of the Southwestern Tablelands ecological region or from the southern end of the Western High Plains ecological region.Dust storm#Dust storm visibility of 1.2F4 mile or less.2C or meters or less