Alert archive / Colorado / Flood Watches
Flood Watches in Colorado, 2023
39 flood watches in 2023. 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 in 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Flood Watches
- 39
- Busiest month
- June20 flood watches
- Busiest day
- June 16, 20234 flood watches
Over time
By month
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 9:57 AM MDT | Flood Watch | GJT | Eagle, Garfield, Moffat, Rio Blanco, Routt | 27 min |
| May 1, 10:58 AM MDT | Flood Watch | GJT | Eagle, Garfield, Moffat, Rio Blanco, Routt | 5 days |
| May 9, 5:26 PM MDT | Flood Watch | GJT | Garfield, Moffat, Rio Blanco, Routt | 46 hr |
| May 10, 3:08 AM MDT | Flood Watch | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and 12 more | 57 hr |
| May 10, 8:31 PM MDT | Flood Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 39 hr |
| May 11, 6:53 PM MDT | Flood Watch | PUB | El Paso | 9 hr |
| May 26, 12:45 AM MDT | Flood Watch | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 25 hr |
| Jun 11, 11:30 AM MDT | Flood Watch | PUB | Bent, Crowley, El Paso, Fremont, Huerfano, Kiowa and 5 more | 32 hr |
| Jun 11, 11:43 AM MDT | Flood Watch | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Denver and 6 more | 15 hr |
| Jun 12, 2:50 AM MDT | Flood Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 19 hr |
| Jun 12, 3:24 AM MDT | Flood Watch | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Denver and 11 more | 21 hr |
| Jun 13, 3:21 AM MDT | Flood Watch | PUB | El Paso | 15 hr |
| Jun 16, 12:58 AM MDT | Flood Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 1 min |
| Jun 16, 1:03 AM MDT | Flood Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 25 hr |
| Jun 16, 2:23 AM MDT | Flood Watch | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and 4 more | 20 hr |
| Jun 16, 2:40 AM MDT | Flood Watch | PUB | Bent, Crowley, El Paso, Kiowa, Otero, Prowers and 1 more | 21 hr |
| Jun 17, 2:21 AM MDT | Flood Watch | BOU | Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert, Lincoln | 16 hr |
| Jun 17, 2:28 AM MDT | Flood Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 20 hr |
| Jun 17, 3:16 AM MDT | Flood Watch | PUB | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Custer, El Paso, Fremont and 5 more | 16 hr |
| Jun 21, 12:43 AM MDT | Flood Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 32 hr |
| Jun 21, 8:50 AM MDT | Flood Watch | PUB | El Paso | 18 hr |
| Jun 21, 9:32 AM MDT | Flood Watch | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert, Lincoln, Washington | 20 hr |
| Jun 22, 10:13 AM MDT | Flood Watch | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and 6 more | 14 hr |
| Jun 22, 10:32 AM MDT | Flood Watch | PUB | El Paso | 11 hr |
| Jun 22, 11:05 AM MDT | Flood Watch | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 11 hr |
| Jun 23, 6:49 PM MDT | Flood Watch | BOU | Logan | 6 hr |
| Jun 30, 12:02 PM MDT | Flood Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 9 hr |
| Jul 20, 2:45 AM MDT | Flood Watch | PUB | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Las Animas, Otero and 1 more | 23 hr |
| Jul 20, 2:51 AM MDT | Flood Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 23 hr |
| Jul 20, 3:02 AM MDT | Flood Watch | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln, Washington | 21 hr |
| Jul 31, 3:11 AM MDT | Flood Watch | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and 9 more | 21 hr |
| Jul 31, 2:37 PM MDT | Flood Watch | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Denver and 16 more | 32 hr |
| Aug 1, 2:48 AM MDT | Flood Watch | PUB | El Paso, Fremont, Teller | 19 hr |
| Aug 1, 9:28 AM MDT | Flood Watch | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 18 hr |
| Aug 2, 2:44 PM MDT | Flood Watch | PUB | Chaffee, Lake, Saguache | 13 hr |
| Aug 24, 1:53 PM MDT | Flood Watch | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Denver and 16 more | 30 hr |
| Aug 25, 1:31 AM MDT | Flood Watch | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 18 hr |
| Aug 25, 2:26 AM MDT | Flood Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Chaffee, Costilla, Crowley, Custer, El Paso and 6 more | 17 hr |
| Aug 25, 11:44 AM MDT | Flood Watch | GJT | Eagle, Garfield, Mesa, Moffat, Pitkin, Rio Blanco and 1 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Kit Carson County12
- Elbert County11
- Lincoln County11
- Arapahoe County10
- Douglas County10
- Adams County9
- El Paso County9
- Boulder County8
- Broomfield County8
- Denver County8
- Jefferson County8
- Cheyenne County8
- Yuma County8
- Washington County7
- Larimer County6
- Morgan County6
- Weld County6
- Logan County5
- Crowley County5
- Otero County5
- Garfield County4
- Moffat County4
- Rio Blanco County4
- Routt County4
- Grand County4
- Jackson County4
- Bent County4
- Fremont County4
- Kiowa County4
- Prowers County4
- Pueblo County4
- Teller County4
- Clear Creek County4
- Gilpin County4
- Park County4
- Eagle County3
- Phillips County3
- Sedgwick County3
- Summit County3
- Huerfano County2
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.