Alert archive / Colorado

Weather alerts in Broomfield County, Colorado

2,064 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Broomfield County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
2,064
Warnings
537
Watches
427
Advisories
354
Busiest year
2023131 alerts
Average year
69over 30 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

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

From 2008 to 2025, of tornado reports in Broomfield County fell inside a tornado warning, and 100% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200810100%0
200940100%0
201010100%0
201110100%0
202110100%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008220%0
20099544%0
20108450%0
20115340%1100%13 min
201220100%20%
20133233%1100%35 min
2014660%2100%12 min
20154325%0
20164250%0
2017220%0
201810730%3100%13 min
20196433%450%9 min
20207529%3100%49 min
2021110%10%
20236517%0
2024330%580%9 min
20258538%2100%11 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20134250%0
2021110%0
2022110%2100%12 min
202510100%0

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 30, 2:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOU35 min
Jun 26, 1:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOU27 min
Jun 9, 12:57 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBOU31 hr
Jun 8, 4:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOU32 min
Jun 8, 1:03 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBOU32 hr
May 5, 11:31 AM MDTFreeze WarningBOU44 hr
May 4, 12:51 AM MDTWinter Storm WarningBOU61 hr
Apr 23, 1:41 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBOU30 hr
Apr 22, 12:22 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBOU31 hr
Apr 20, 8:48 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBOU51 hr
Apr 16, 11:02 AM MDTFreeze WarningBOU45 hr
Apr 2, 12:57 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBOU30 hr

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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.