Extreme Cold Watches in Colorado
7 extreme cold 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 extreme cold watches reaches back to 2005.
Extreme Cold Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Extreme Cold Watches
- 7
- Busiest year
- 20257 extreme cold watches
- Average year
- 7over 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.
- Cheyenne County2
- Kit Carson County2
- Yuma County2
- Bent County2
- Kiowa County2
- Prowers 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
- Logan County1
- Phillips County1
- Sedgwick County1
- Washington County1
- Clear Creek County1
- Gilpin County1
- Park County1
- Summit County1
- Huerfano County1
- Las Animas County1
- Crowley County1
- Otero County1
- Pueblo County1
- Chaffee County1
- Lake County1
The latest extreme cold watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 2:05 PM MST | Extreme Cold Watch | BOU | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington | 13 hr |
| Feb 16, 2:00 PM MST | Extreme Cold Watch | PUB | Baca, Bent, Kiowa, Prowers | 23 hr |
| Feb 16, 2:10 AM MST | Extreme Cold Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 24 hr |
| Jan 19, 3:28 AM MST | Extreme Cold Watch | BOU | Boulder, Clear Creek, Gilpin, Grand, Jackson, Jefferson and 3 more | 23 hr |
| Jan 18, 3:52 AM MST | Extreme Cold Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Baca, Bent, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla and 15 more | 47 hr |
| Jan 18, 1:36 AM MST | Extreme Cold Watch | GJT | Archuleta, Delta, Dolores, Eagle, Garfield, Gunnison and 12 more | 49 hr |
| Jan 17, 1:08 PM MST | Extreme Cold Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 71 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.