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High Wind Watches in Colorado, 2021
23 high wind watches in 2021. 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Watches
- 23
- Busiest month
- December10 high wind watches
- Busiest day
- December 13, 20214 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 11, 8:11 PM MST | High Wind Watch | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Douglas and 10 more | 30 hr |
| Jan 12, 2:20 PM MST | High Wind Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 33 hr |
| Feb 6, 3:47 AM MST | High Wind Watch | BOU | Boulder, Clear Creek, Douglas, Gilpin, Grand, Jefferson and 3 more | 8 hr |
| Feb 6, 4:01 AM MST | High Wind Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Chaffee, Costilla, Custer, El Paso, Fremont and 6 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 28, 11:00 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Chaffee, Costilla, Custer, El Paso, Fremont and 4 more | 10 hr |
| Mar 28, 1:00 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 25 hr |
| Mar 28, 2:08 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | BOU | Boulder, Clear Creek, Douglas, Elbert, Gilpin, Grand and 12 more | 19 hr |
| Apr 6, 3:53 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Bent, Conejos, Costilla, Crowley, Custer and 9 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 6, 3:59 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | GLD | Cheyenne | 6 hr |
| Oct 12, 3:56 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | BOU | Boulder, Larimer | 11 hr |
| Oct 25, 9:34 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | PUB | Bent, Crowley, El Paso, Kiowa, Otero, Prowers and 1 more | 13 hr |
| Oct 26, 2:32 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 9 hr |
| Oct 26, 3:06 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln, Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 4, 2:49 AM MST | High Wind Watch | BOU | Boulder, Clear Creek, Douglas, Gilpin, Grand, Jackson and 4 more | 12 hr |
| Dec 8, 4:08 AM MST | High Wind Watch | PUB | Costilla, Huerfano, Las Animas | 6 hr |
| Dec 10, 4:05 AM MST | High Wind Watch | BOU | Boulder, Clear Creek, Douglas, Gilpin, Grand, Jackson and 4 more | 10 hr |
| Dec 13, 2:04 AM MST | High Wind Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 24 hr |
| Dec 13, 3:58 AM MST | High Wind Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Baca, Bent, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla and 13 more | 24 hr |
| Dec 13, 2:20 PM MST | High Wind Watch | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Denver and 13 more | 14 hr |
| Dec 13, 2:38 PM MST | High Wind Watch | GJT | Archuleta, Dolores, La Plata, Mesa, Montezuma, Montrose and 1 more | 13 hr |
| Dec 22, 3:15 PM MST | High Wind Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Bent, Chaffee, Costilla, Custer, El Paso and 7 more | 13 hr |
| Dec 25, 3:32 AM MST | High Wind Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla, Custer, Fremont and 6 more | 12 hr |
| Dec 28, 1:44 PM MST | High Wind Watch | BOU | Boulder, Grand, Jackson, Larimer | 24 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Boulder County8
- Larimer County8
- Costilla County7
- Huerfano County7
- Las Animas County7
- Clear Creek County6
- Douglas County6
- Gilpin County6
- Jefferson County6
- Park County6
- Alamosa County6
- Custer County6
- Fremont County6
- Pueblo County6
- Saguache County6
- Cheyenne County5
- Grand County5
- Chaffee County5
- El Paso County5
- Teller County5
- Otero County5
- Logan County4
- Phillips County4
- Sedgwick County4
- Washington County4
- Weld County4
- Kit Carson County4
- Yuma County4
- Summit County4
- Jackson County4
- Bent County4
- Morgan County3
- Elbert County3
- Lincoln County3
- Conejos County3
- Crowley County3
- Kiowa County3
- Rio Grande County3
- Adams County2
- Arapahoe 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. Rebuilt daily.