Weather alerts in Bent County, Colorado

4,294 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Bent County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 4,294
Warnings: 1,792
Watches: 829
Advisories: 275
Busiest year: 2023360 alerts
Average year: 105over 41 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

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	988
Tornado Warning	131
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	306
Tornado Watch	71
Mesoscale Discussion	792
Special Weather Statement	606
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	6
Flash Flood Warning	60
River Flood Warning	20
Flash Flood Watch	27
Flood Watch	12
River Flood Watch	2
Areal Flood Advisory	80
Winter
Blizzard Warning	5
Heavy Snow Warning	1
Snow Squall Warning	4
Winter Storm Warning	20
Blizzard Watch	6
Winter Storm Watch	28
Blowing Snow Advisory	1
Snow Advisory	2
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	6
Winter Weather Advisory	73
Heat
Heat Advisory	20
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	2
Freeze Warning	59
Hard Freeze Warning	1
Wind Chill Warning	6
Extreme Cold Watch	2
Freeze Watch	34
Hard Freeze Watch	1
Wind Chill Watch	3
Cold Weather Advisory	5
Frost Advisory	19
Wind Chill Advisory	22
Wind and dust
Blowing Dust Warning	6
Dust Storm Warning	11
High Wind Warning	87
High Wind Watch	56
Blowing Dust Advisory	15
Dust Storm Advisory	1
Fire
Red Flag Warning	385
Fire Weather Watch	281
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	23
Freezing Fog Advisory	8

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 20, 10:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	49 min
Sep 20, 10:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	40 min
Sep 20, 5:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	48 min
Sep 8, 9:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	43 min
Sep 8, 8:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	45 min
Aug 31, 7:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	62 min
Aug 31, 6:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	49 min
Aug 31, 6:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	49 min
Aug 31, 5:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	54 min
Aug 31, 5:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	35 min
Aug 31, 4:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	33 min
Aug 31, 4:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	24 min

Nearby

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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. Rebuilt daily.