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High Wind Watches in Colorado, 2018

21 high wind watches in 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.

High Wind Watches
21
Busiest month
April10 high wind watches
Busiest day
April 11, 20184 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 15, 3:52 PM MSTHigh Wind WatchBOUBoulder, Clear Creek, Douglas, Gilpin, Grand, Jackson and 4 more17 hr
Feb 17, 4:04 AM MSTHigh Wind WatchPUBAlamosa, Chaffee, Costilla, Custer, El Paso, Fremont and 5 more11 hr
Mar 3, 1:54 PM MSTHigh Wind WatchGLDKit Carson, Yuma23 hr
Mar 3, 2:22 PM MSTHigh Wind WatchBOULogan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Weld15 hr
Mar 4, 5:22 AM MSTHigh Wind WatchBOUAdams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, Elbert and 3 more9 hr
Mar 4, 2:16 PM MSTHigh Wind WatchGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma19 hr
Mar 15, 3:54 AM MDTHigh Wind WatchBOUBoulder, Clear Creek, Douglas, Gilpin, Jefferson, Larimer and 1 more11 hr
Mar 15, 4:32 AM MDTHigh Wind WatchPUBAlamosa, Costilla, Custer, El Paso, Fremont, Huerfano and 4 more10 hr
Apr 1, 2:17 PM MDTHigh Wind WatchGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma21 hr
Apr 1, 2:29 PM MDTHigh Wind WatchBOUElbert, Lincoln, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick and 2 more23 hr
Apr 1, 2:54 PM MDTHigh Wind WatchPUBCrowley, Kiowa21 hr
Apr 11, 3:52 AM MDTHigh Wind WatchPUBAlamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Custer, El Paso, Fremont and 6 more11 hr
Apr 11, 2:59 PM MDTHigh Wind WatchBOUAdams, Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert, Lincoln, Logan and 5 more19 hr
Apr 11, 2:59 PM MDTHigh Wind WatchGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma19 hr
Apr 11, 3:21 PM MDTHigh Wind WatchPUBBaca, Bent, Crowley, El Paso, Kiowa, Las Animas and 3 more19 hr
Apr 16, 1:39 PM MDTHigh Wind WatchGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma20 hr
Apr 16, 2:16 PM MDTHigh Wind WatchBOUAdams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, Elbert and 7 more18 hr
Apr 16, 3:10 PM MDTHigh Wind WatchPUBAlamosa, Baca, Bent, Conejos, Costilla, Crowley and 12 more12 hr
Dec 11, 3:01 PM MSTHigh Wind WatchPUBBaca, Bent, Crowley, El Paso, Kiowa, Las Animas and 2 more20 hr
Dec 11, 7:37 PM MSTHigh Wind WatchGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson16 hr
Dec 17, 3:32 PM MSTHigh Wind WatchBOUAdams, Arapahoe, Elbert, Larimer, Lincoln, Logan and 3 more18 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

4 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. April 11, 20184high wind watches
  2. April 1, 20183high wind watches
  3. April 16, 20183high wind watches
  4. March 3, 20182high wind watches
  5. March 4, 20182high wind watches
  6. March 15, 20182high wind watches
  7. February 15, 20181high wind watches
  8. February 17, 20181high wind watches
  9. December 11, 20181high wind watches
  10. December 12, 20181high wind watches
  11. December 17, 20181high wind watches

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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.