Blizzard Watches in Colorado
44 blizzard watches since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of blizzard watches reaches back to 2005.
Blizzard Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Blizzard Watches
- 44
- Busiest year
- 201310 blizzard watches
- Average year
- 5over 9 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 county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- El Paso County11
- Kit Carson County8
- Las Animas County8
- Arapahoe County8
- Elbert County8
- Lincoln County8
- Baca County8
- Yuma County7
- Douglas County7
- Cheyenne County6
- Bent County6
- Otero County6
- Prowers County6
- Adams County6
- Crowley County5
- Kiowa County5
- Huerfano County4
- Morgan County4
- Archuleta County4
- Dolores County4
- Gunnison County4
- Hinsdale County4
- La Plata County4
- Mesa County4
- Montezuma County4
- Montrose County4
- Ouray County4
- San Juan County4
- San Miguel County4
- Conejos County4
- Mineral County4
- Rio Grande County4
- Garfield County4
- Logan County4
- Phillips County4
- Sedgwick County4
- Washington County4
- Pueblo County3
- Delta County3
- Saguache County3
Nearby
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.