Alert archive / Colorado / Denver County

Weather alerts in Denver County, Colorado, 2008

65 weather alerts in 2008, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Denver County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2008. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
65
Warnings
23
Watches
13
Advisories
14
Busiest month
August17 alerts
Busiest day
May 22, 20084 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

0 of 1 tornado warnings covering Denver County in 2008 had a tornado report inside them.

Denver County, 2008

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings10100%0
Severe thunderstorm warnings7186%1100%8 min
Flash flood warnings110%2100%39 min

Each office's whole area, 2008

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO: tornado warnings581672%4464%13 min
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO: severe thunderstorm warnings1475265%14054%20 min
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO: flash flood warnings14379%786%40 min

An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.

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.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Feb 13, 3:43 PM MSTBlowing Snow AdvisoryBOU53 min
Feb 13, 4:36 PM MSTSnow and Blowing Snow AdvisoryBOU24 hr
Mar 1, 4:54 AM MSTRed Flag WarningBOU13 hr
Mar 1, 3:56 PM MSTSnow and Blowing Snow AdvisoryBOU28 hr
Mar 15, 12:14 PM MDTWinter Storm WatchBOU26 hr
Mar 16, 1:47 PM MDTHeavy Snow WarningBOU19 hr
Apr 8, 3:06 PM MDTWinter Storm WatchBOU22 hr
Apr 9, 12:40 PM MDTSnow and Blowing Snow AdvisoryBOU27 hr
Apr 14, 4:05 AM MDTFire Weather WatchBOU11 hr
Apr 14, 2:59 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBOU28 hr
Apr 19, 10:17 AM MDTRed Flag WarningBOU10 hr
Apr 19, 8:00 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBOU24 hr
Apr 21, 3:21 PM MDTFire Weather WatchBOU24 hr
Apr 22, 3:47 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBOU29 hr
Apr 28, 3:53 PM MDTFire Weather WatchBOU12 hr
Apr 29, 4:01 AM MDTRed Flag WarningBOU16 hr
Apr 29, 8:23 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBOU24 hr
May 1, 3:50 PM MDTHigh Wind WatchBOU12 hr
May 2, 8:36 PM MDTFreeze WarningBOU12 hr
May 10, 2:22 PM MDTFreeze WarningBOU18 hr
May 21, 5:33 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC57 min
May 22, 11:06 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC24 min
May 22, 11:25 AM MDTTornado WatchSPC9 hr
May 22, 12:34 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC86 min
May 22, 4:50 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC85 min
May 23, 5:02 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC58 min
May 28, 3:53 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC97 min
Jun 2, 11:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOU51 min
Jun 3, 12:53 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC97 min
Jun 4, 11:54 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC96 min
Jun 4, 12:42 PM MDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr
Jun 4, 2:26 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC64 min
Jun 18, 12:02 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC28 min
Jun 19, 6:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC27 hr
Jun 20, 2:31 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC59 min
Jun 20, 6:08 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC67 min
Jun 22, 4:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOU44 min
Jun 22, 4:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOU29 min
Jun 25, 8:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOU37 min
Jul 6, 2:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOU37 min
Jul 31, 3:55 PM MDTHeat AdvisoryBOU29 hr
Aug 2, 10:43 AM MDTHeat AdvisoryBOU9 hr
Aug 2, 11:52 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOU23 min
Aug 5, 3:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOU41 min
Aug 6, 11:52 AM MDTFlash Flood WatchBOU12 hr
Aug 6, 5:03 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBOU87 min
Aug 6, 6:39 PM MDTTornado WarningBOU36 min
Aug 6, 7:20 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBOU85 min
Aug 6, 7:36 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBOU3 hr
Aug 7, 11:37 AM MDTFlash Flood WatchBOU8 hr
Aug 8, 7:30 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBOU90 min
Aug 8, 7:51 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningBOU94 min
Aug 8, 10:23 PM MDTAreal Flood WarningBOU3 hr
Aug 10, 4:10 AM MDTFlash Flood WatchBOU16 hr
Aug 14, 11:47 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC88 min
Aug 15, 2:32 PM MDTFlood WatchBOU32 hr
Aug 24, 1:48 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC117 min
Aug 25, 1:54 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Oct 6, 11:13 AM MDTFrost AdvisoryBOU22 hr
Oct 12, 8:07 PM MDTFreeze WarningBOU13 hr
Oct 13, 2:47 PM MDTFreeze WarningBOU18 hr
Oct 22, 4:02 AM MDTFreeze WarningBOU29 hr
Nov 20, 2:46 AM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryBOU11 hr
Dec 8, 5:49 AM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryBOU23 hr
Dec 14, 12:34 AM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryBOU15 hr

By product

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

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

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.