Flood Watches in Colorado
136 flood 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 flood watches reaches back to 2005.
Flood Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Flood Watches
- 136
- Busiest year
- 202339 flood watches
- Average year
- 9over 16 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.
- El Paso County24
- Elbert County24
- San Miguel County24
- Fremont County23
- Arapahoe County23
- Lincoln County23
- Dolores County23
- Mesa County22
- Kit Carson County22
- Montrose County22
- Garfield County21
- Douglas County21
- Montezuma County21
- Yuma County20
- La Plata County20
- Ouray County20
- Las Animas County19
- Rio Blanco County19
- Cheyenne County19
- Archuleta County19
- Hinsdale County19
- Huerfano County18
- Teller County18
- Jefferson County18
- San Juan County18
- Custer County17
- Saguache County17
- Moffat County17
- Boulder County17
- Gunnison County17
- Chaffee County16
- Costilla County16
- Pueblo County16
- Routt County16
- Weld County16
- Adams County16
- Delta County16
- Broomfield County15
- Washington County15
- Eagle County15
24 more counties
- Alamosa County14
- Otero County14
- Larimer County14
- Mineral County14
- Rio Grande County14
- Crowley County13
- Morgan County13
- Conejos County13
- Pitkin County13
- Bent County12
- Prowers County12
- Clear Creek County12
- Gilpin County12
- Park County12
- Denver County12
- Logan County12
- Kiowa County11
- Baca County8
- Phillips County7
- Sedgwick County7
- Lake County7
- Grand County7
- Jackson County6
- Summit County5
The latest flood watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 10:51 PM MDT | Flood Watch | PUB | Conejos, Mineral, Rio Grande | 3 days |
| Sep 21, 10:35 PM MDT | Flood Watch | GJT | Archuleta, Dolores, Hinsdale, La Plata, Montezuma, San Juan and 1 more | 3 days |
| Sep 15, 10:44 AM MDT | Flood Watch | GJT | Archuleta, Dolores, Gunnison, Hinsdale, La Plata, Montezuma and 4 more | 61 hr |
| Sep 15, 12:12 AM MDT | Flood Watch | PUB | Conejos, Mineral, Rio Grande | 72 hr |
| Sep 5, 4:31 PM MDT | Flood Watch | BOU | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick | 10 hr |
| Aug 30, 11:36 AM MDT | Flood Watch | GJT | Archuleta, La Plata | 33 hr |
| Aug 30, 4:18 AM MDT | Flood Watch | GJT | Archuleta, Delta, Dolores, Eagle, Garfield, Gunnison and 12 more | 41 hr |
| Aug 15, 11:32 AM MDT | Flood Watch | GLD | Cheyenne | 13 hr |
| Aug 15, 9:05 AM MDT | Flood Watch | PUB | Bent, Crowley, El Paso, Fremont, Huerfano, Kiowa and 4 more | 13 hr |
| Aug 15, 1:06 AM MDT | Flood Watch | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Denver and 13 more | 19 hr |
| Aug 14, 10:40 AM MDT | Flood Watch | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Clear Creek, Douglas, Elbert, Gilpin and 7 more | 11 hr |
| Aug 14, 10:25 AM MDT | Flood Watch | PUB | El Paso | 12 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.