Blowing Dust Warnings in Colorado
30 blowing dust warnings 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 blowing dust warnings reaches back to 2005.
Blowing Dust Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Blowing Dust Warnings
- 30
- Busiest year
- 202610 blowing dust warnings
- Average year
- 4over 7 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.
The latest blowing dust warnings
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 5:56 PM MDT | Blowing Dust Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 81 min |
| Jul 8, 7:14 PM MDT | Blowing Dust Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 57 min |
| May 30, 6:52 PM MDT | Blowing Dust Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 2 hr |
| May 18, 9:31 AM MDT | Blowing Dust Warning | PUB | Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Rio Grande, Saguache | 4 hr |
| Apr 11, 5:34 PM MDT | Blowing Dust Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 3 hr |
| Mar 15, 7:44 AM MDT | Blowing Dust Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 6 hr |
| Feb 17, 1:44 PM MST | Blowing Dust Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent, Kiowa, Prowers | 4 hr |
| Feb 17, 10:05 AM MST | Blowing Dust Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 7 hr |
| Jan 16, 9:03 AM MST | Blowing Dust Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 7 hr |
| Jan 15, 8:35 PM MST | Blowing Dust Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 2 hr |
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.