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High Wind Watches in Colorado, 2012
18 high wind watches in 2012. 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 high wind watches reaches back to 2005.
High Wind Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Watches
- 18
- Busiest month
- January5 high wind watches
- Busiest day
- May 25, 20124 high wind 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 16, 2:36 PM MST | High Wind Watch | BOU | Boulder, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Douglas, Gilpin, Grand and 6 more | 36 hr |
| Jan 17, 4:08 AM MST | High Wind Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Chaffee, Costilla, Custer, El Paso, Fremont and 6 more | 11 hr |
| Jan 17, 8:53 AM MST | High Wind Watch | GJT | Delta, Eagle, Garfield, Gunnison, Moffat, Montrose and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Jan 20, 6:13 AM MST | High Wind Watch | PUB | Costilla, Custer, El Paso, Fremont, Huerfano, Las Animas and 2 more | 10 hr |
| Jan 21, 5:20 PM MST | High Wind Watch | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 6 hr |
| Feb 20, 4:25 AM MST | High Wind Watch | BOU | Boulder, Clear Creek, Douglas, Gilpin, Grand, Jackson and 4 more | 24 hr |
| Feb 27, 6:31 AM MST | High Wind Watch | PUB | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Huerfano, Las Animas, Otero and 2 more | 21 hr |
| Feb 27, 2:16 PM MST | High Wind Watch | BOU | Boulder, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Douglas, Gilpin, Jefferson and 3 more | 19 hr |
| Mar 16, 3:40 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 48 hr |
| Mar 16, 4:15 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | PUB | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Las Animas, Otero and 1 more | 48 hr |
| Apr 14, 2:44 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 12 hr |
| May 24, 9:40 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | GJT | Archuleta, Delta, Dolores, Eagle, Garfield, Gunnison and 12 more | 7 hr |
| May 25, 3:26 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 25 hr |
| May 25, 4:01 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, Elbert and 7 more | 23 hr |
| May 25, 4:26 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Baca, Bent, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla and 15 more | 24 hr |
| Oct 16, 4:25 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | BOU | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Weld | 12 hr |
| Nov 30, 4:57 AM MST | High Wind Watch | BOU | Boulder, Grand, Jackson, Larimer | 9 hr |
| Dec 14, 4:27 AM MST | High Wind Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Chaffee, Costilla, Custer, Fremont, Huerfano and 3 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Las Animas County6
- Huerfano County5
- Pueblo County5
- Boulder County4
- Douglas County4
- Larimer County4
- Weld County4
- Costilla County4
- Custer County4
- Fremont County4
- Kit Carson County4
- Yuma County4
- Broomfield County3
- Clear Creek County3
- Gilpin County3
- Grand County3
- Jackson County3
- Jefferson County3
- Park County3
- Alamosa County3
- Chaffee County3
- El Paso County3
- Saguache County3
- Teller County3
- Baca County3
- Bent County3
- Crowley County3
- Otero County3
- Prowers County3
- Summit County2
- Lake County2
- Delta County2
- Eagle County2
- Garfield County2
- Gunnison County2
- Moffat County2
- Montrose County2
- Pitkin County2
- Rio Blanco County2
- Routt County2
24 more counties
- Cheyenne County2
- Kiowa County2
- Logan County2
- Phillips County2
- Sedgwick County2
- Archuleta County1
- Dolores County1
- Hinsdale County1
- La Plata County1
- Mesa County1
- Montezuma County1
- Ouray County1
- San Juan County1
- San Miguel County1
- Adams County1
- Arapahoe County1
- Denver County1
- Elbert County1
- Lincoln County1
- Morgan County1
- Washington County1
- Conejos County1
- Mineral County1
- Rio Grande County1
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. Rebuilt daily.