Alert archive / Colorado / 2002
Weather alerts in Colorado, August 2002
155 weather alerts in August 2002, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in August 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 155
- Warnings
- 142
- Watches
- 13
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- August 28, 200222 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Mountain Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 2:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 47 min |
| Aug 3, 1:37 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GJT | La Plata | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 6:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Logan | 56 min |
| Aug 4, 7:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Logan | 54 min |
| Aug 4, 7:42 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOU | Logan | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 8:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 60 min |
| Aug 4, 8:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Sedgwick | 51 min |
| Aug 4, 9:58 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOU | Sedgwick | 3 hr |
| Aug 5, 2:40 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOU | Jefferson, Park | 3 hr |
| Aug 5, 2:43 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GJT | Garfield | 2 hr |
| Aug 5, 3:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Denver | 48 min |
| Aug 5, 3:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GJT | Mesa | 43 min |
| Aug 5, 3:31 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOU | Adams, Denver | 2 hr |
| Aug 5, 3:40 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GJT | Eagle | 2 hr |
| Aug 5, 4:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Arapahoe, Denver, Jefferson | 40 min |
| Aug 5, 4:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Morgan | 55 min |
| Aug 5, 5:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 59 min |
| Aug 5, 5:36 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GJT | La Plata | 114 min |
| Aug 5, 5:48 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOU | Larimer | 117 min |
| Aug 5, 5:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 56 min |
| Aug 5, 6:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GJT | Mesa | 38 min |
| Aug 5, 7:30 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GJT | La Plata | 60 min |
| Aug 5, 7:32 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GJT | La Plata | 58 min |
| Aug 5, 7:56 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GJT | Garfield | 64 min |
| Aug 5, 8:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GJT | Garfield | 50 min |
| Aug 5, 8:56 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GJT | Garfield | 94 min |
| Aug 6, 2:01 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GJT | La Plata | 119 min |
| Aug 6, 1:38 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GJT | Mesa | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 3:24 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GJT | Delta | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 4:40 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GJT | Garfield, Mesa | 110 min |
| Aug 7, 5:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Weld | 64 min |
| Aug 8, 2:01 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GJT | La Plata | 119 min |
| Aug 9, 3:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 82 min |
| Aug 9, 3:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 9, 4:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 48 min |
| Aug 9, 4:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 56 min |
| Aug 9, 5:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 114 min |
| Aug 9, 6:19 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 71 min |
| Aug 9, 6:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 118 min |
| Aug 9, 6:51 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 99 min |
| Aug 9, 7:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, Otero | 86 min |
| Aug 9, 7:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 83 min |
| Aug 13, 1:56 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 64 min |
| Aug 19, 5:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 49 min |
| Aug 19, 6:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 47 min |
| Aug 20, 9:44 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GJT | Garfield | 3 hr |
| Aug 20, 12:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Elbert, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Logan, Phillips and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 20, 4:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 62 min |
| Aug 20, 5:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 93 min |
| Aug 20, 6:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 64 min |
| Aug 20, 6:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GJT | San Miguel | 47 min |
| Aug 20, 7:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GJT | Montrose, San Miguel | 38 min |
| Aug 20, 9:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GJT | Mesa | 24 min |
| Aug 20, 9:16 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GJT | La Plata | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 1:23 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GJT | La Plata | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 5:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 59 min |
| Aug 22, 8:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Logan | 55 min |
| Aug 22, 11:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas, Otero | 56 min |
| Aug 23, 3:20 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 55 min |
| Aug 23, 5:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 56 min |
| Aug 23, 5:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Kit Carson, Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Yuma | 6 hr |
| Aug 23, 6:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Logan, Sedgwick | 64 min |
| Aug 23, 6:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 62 min |
| Aug 23, 6:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 56 min |
| Aug 23, 7:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 61 min |
| Aug 23, 8:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 89 min |
| Aug 23, 8:29 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 3 hr |
| Aug 23, 10:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Lincoln, Otero and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 24, 12:02 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 43 min |
| Aug 24, 12:35 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 55 min |
| Aug 24, 1:29 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 61 min |
| Aug 24, 7:43 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 47 min |
| Aug 24, 1:15 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick | 7 hr |
| Aug 24, 3:08 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Sedgwick | 52 min |
| Aug 24, 5:04 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan, Weld | 41 min |
| Aug 24, 5:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Kit Carson, Morgan, Washington, Yuma | 5 hr |
| Aug 24, 5:40 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan, Washington | 50 min |
| Aug 24, 5:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan | 45 min |
| Aug 24, 6:17 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 43 min |
| Aug 24, 6:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Phillips | 43 min |
| Aug 24, 6:59 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 46 min |
| Aug 24, 7:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 60 min |
| Aug 24, 7:48 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 27 min |
| Aug 24, 7:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 56 min |
| Aug 24, 8:43 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 62 min |
| Aug 24, 10:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Washington | 53 min |
| Aug 24, 10:32 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 43 min |
| Aug 24, 11:03 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 42 min |
| Aug 24, 11:14 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 16 min |
| Aug 24, 11:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 64 min |
| Aug 25, 1:28 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 62 min |
| Aug 25, 2:00 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 60 min |
| Aug 25, 2:33 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 57 min |
| Aug 25, 3:23 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 37 min |
| Aug 25, 5:09 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 66 min |
| Aug 26, 1:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Yuma | 5 hr |
| Aug 26, 4:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lincoln and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 26, 5:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 55 min |
| Aug 26, 5:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 60 min |
| Aug 26, 8:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Logan | 53 min |
| Aug 26, 9:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Washington | 30 min |
| Aug 26, 10:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Larimer | 59 min |
| Aug 26, 10:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Larimer, Weld | 63 min |
| Aug 26, 11:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 47 min |
| Aug 27, 12:33 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert | 42 min |
| Aug 27, 1:17 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Douglas, Elbert | 58 min |
| Aug 27, 2:19 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Elbert | 41 min |
| Aug 27, 2:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Gilpin | 51 min |
| Aug 27, 2:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Jefferson | 47 min |
| Aug 27, 2:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 27, 2:52 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Jefferson | 38 min |
| Aug 27, 3:18 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Arapahoe, Denver, Douglas, Jefferson | 42 min |
| Aug 27, 6:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Douglas, Jefferson | 49 min |
| Aug 27, 10:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 61 min |
| Aug 28, 6:06 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Washington | 54 min |
| Aug 28, 8:39 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 51 min |
| Aug 28, 1:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 86 min |
| Aug 28, 1:50 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 1:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 2 hr |
| Aug 28, 1:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, El Paso, Huerfano and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 28, 3:00 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 60 min |
| Aug 28, 3:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano, Pueblo | 2 hr |
| Aug 28, 3:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Fremont | 55 min |
| Aug 28, 3:50 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 3:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 2 hr |
| Aug 28, 4:00 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Prowers | 60 min |
| Aug 28, 4:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 66 min |
| Aug 28, 4:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Douglas | 60 min |
| Aug 28, 4:59 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Prowers | 61 min |
| Aug 28, 4:59 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Prowers | 61 min |
| Aug 28, 5:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 87 min |
| Aug 28, 5:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 64 min |
| Aug 28, 5:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Washington | 49 min |
| Aug 28, 5:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 57 min |
| Aug 28, 6:45 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 4 hr |
| Aug 28, 6:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lincoln and 5 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 28, 6:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 59 min |
| Aug 28, 6:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 58 min |
| Aug 28, 7:09 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOU | Washington | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 7:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 59 min |
| Aug 28, 7:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Washington | 36 min |
| Aug 28, 7:39 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Weld | 51 min |
| Aug 28, 8:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Weld | 45 min |
| Aug 28, 9:16 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan, Weld | 44 min |
| Aug 29, 11:59 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GJT | La Plata | 3 hr |
| Aug 29, 1:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Garfield, Mesa, Moffat, Montrose, Rio Blanco | 7 hr |
| Aug 29, 2:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 29, 2:59 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GJT | La Plata | 3 hr |
| Aug 29, 3:12 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Douglas | 48 min |
| Aug 29, 3:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 63 min |
| Aug 29, 3:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 54 min |
| Aug 29, 5:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 86 min |
| Aug 29, 5:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GJT | Mesa | 47 min |
| Aug 31, 4:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 54 min |
| Aug 31, 5:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 60 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 86 |
| Tornado Warning | 28 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 12 |
| Tornado Watch | 1 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 28 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Washington County21
- Kit Carson County18
- Yuma County17
- Logan County16
- Weld County15
- Bent County14
- Prowers County13
- La Plata County10
- Cheyenne County10
- Sedgwick County9
- Lincoln County9
- Las Animas County8
- Jefferson County8
- Kiowa County8
- Douglas County8
- Garfield County7
- Denver County7
- Mesa County7
- El Paso County7
- Elbert County7
- Phillips County7
- Adams County6
- Arapahoe County6
- Morgan County6
- Baca County6
- Otero County6
- Larimer County5
- Crowley County4
- Pueblo County4
- Gilpin County3
- San Miguel County2
- Montrose County2
- Boulder County2
- Broomfield County2
- Huerfano County2
- Park County1
- Eagle County1
- Delta County1
- Fremont County1
- Moffat County1
1 more counties
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.