Extreme Cold Warnings in Colorado
9 extreme cold 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 extreme cold warnings reaches back to 2005.
Extreme Cold Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Extreme Cold Warnings
- 9
- Busiest year
- 20259 extreme cold warnings
- Average year
- 9over 1 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.
- Yuma County3
- Cheyenne County2
- Kit Carson County2
- Bent County2
- Kiowa County2
- Prowers County2
- Chaffee County2
- Lake County2
- Saguache County2
- Baca County2
- Grand County1
- Jackson County1
- Delta County1
- Eagle County1
- Garfield County1
- Gunnison County1
- Hinsdale County1
- Mesa County1
- Moffat County1
- Montrose County1
- Ouray County1
- Pitkin County1
- Rio Blanco County1
- Routt County1
- San Miguel County1
- Boulder County1
- Jefferson County1
- Larimer County1
- Phillips County1
- Sedgwick County1
- Clear Creek County1
- Gilpin County1
- Park County1
- Summit County1
- Huerfano County1
- Las Animas County1
- Crowley County1
- Otero County1
- Pueblo County1
- Alamosa County1
The latest extreme cold warnings
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 1:15 PM MST | Extreme Cold Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent, Kiowa, Prowers | 70 hr |
| Feb 17, 2:58 AM MST | Extreme Cold Warning | BOU | Phillips, Sedgwick | 3 days |
| Feb 17, 1:45 AM MST | Extreme Cold Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 3 days |
| Jan 20, 12:21 PM MST | Extreme Cold Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 22 hr |
| Jan 20, 3:14 AM MST | Extreme Cold Warning | PUB | Alamosa, Baca, Bent, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla and 15 more | 31 hr |
| Jan 20, 2:46 AM MST | Extreme Cold Warning | BOU | Boulder, Clear Creek, Gilpin, Grand, Jackson, Jefferson and 3 more | 30 hr |
| Jan 20, 2:06 AM MST | Extreme Cold Warning | GJT | Archuleta, Delta, Dolores, Eagle, Garfield, Gunnison and 12 more | 33 hr |
| Jan 19, 12:50 PM MST | Extreme Cold Warning | GLD | Yuma | 21 hr |
| Jan 18, 3:52 AM MST | Extreme Cold Warning | PUB | Chaffee, Lake, Saguache | 31 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.