Alert archive / Colorado / High Wind Watches
High Wind Watches in Colorado, 2022
39 high wind watches in 2022. 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 2022. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Watches
- 39
- Busiest month
- April14 high wind watches
- Busiest day
- April 4, 20224 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 13, 11:11 AM MST | High Wind Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 16 hr |
| Jan 13, 2:25 PM MST | High Wind Watch | PUB | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero, Prowers | 14 hr |
| Mar 22, 2:48 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | PUB | Crowley, El Paso, Pueblo | 12 hr |
| Mar 22, 2:58 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | BOU | Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert, Lincoln | 13 hr |
| Apr 4, 3:35 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | PUB | Chaffee, Custer, El Paso, Fremont, Pueblo, Teller | 11 hr |
| Apr 4, 4:08 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, Elbert and 6 more | 25 hr |
| Apr 4, 1:22 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | GLD | Yuma | 14 hr |
| Apr 4, 1:22 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 14 hr |
| Apr 5, 4:57 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick and 2 more | 10 hr |
| Apr 5, 12:56 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 14 hr |
| Apr 6, 3:04 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick and 2 more | 11 hr |
| Apr 6, 3:28 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | PUB | Baca, Bent, Kiowa, Prowers | 11 hr |
| Apr 10, 2:07 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 37 hr |
| Apr 10, 3:25 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Baca, Bent, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla and 13 more | 22 hr |
| Apr 20, 1:13 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, Elbert and 6 more | 24 hr |
| Apr 20, 1:34 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 24 hr |
| Apr 20, 1:35 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Baca, Bent, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla and 13 more | 25 hr |
| Apr 28, 2:58 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 22 hr |
| May 7, 2:51 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Chaffee, Costilla, Custer, Fremont, Huerfano and 3 more | 13 hr |
| May 8, 4:07 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | PUB | Custer, El Paso, Fremont, Teller | 6 hr |
| Jun 12, 3:40 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | GJT | Delta, Dolores, Garfield, Gunnison, La Plata, Mesa and 6 more | 11 hr |
| Oct 21, 3:07 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | PUB | Costilla, Huerfano, Las Animas | 13 hr |
| Oct 22, 4:04 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Baca, Bent, Conejos, Costilla, Crowley and 4 more | 10 hr |
| Oct 22, 8:54 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 17 hr |
| Oct 22, 2:07 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 12 hr |
| Nov 3, 1:32 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | BOU | Boulder, Clear Creek, Douglas, Gilpin, Jefferson, Larimer and 1 more | 24 hr |
| Nov 8, 1:20 PM MST | High Wind Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 13 hr |
| Nov 8, 2:28 PM MST | High Wind Watch | PUB | Baca, Bent, Kiowa, Las Animas, Prowers | 13 hr |
| Nov 27, 2:21 PM MST | High Wind Watch | PUB | Costilla, Huerfano, Las Animas | 14 hr |
| Nov 30, 2:34 PM MST | High Wind Watch | BOU | Arapahoe, Boulder, Clear Creek, Douglas, Elbert, Gilpin and 3 more | 12 hr |
| Nov 30, 2:48 PM MST | High Wind Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Baca, Bent, Chaffee, Costilla, Crowley and 11 more | 13 hr |
| Dec 1, 2:31 AM MST | High Wind Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 9 hr |
| Dec 1, 2:36 AM MST | High Wind Watch | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Elbert, Lincoln, Logan, Morgan and 4 more | 11 hr |
| Dec 1, 3:01 AM MST | High Wind Watch | GJT | Garfield, Moffat, Rio Blanco, Routt | 11 hr |
| Dec 11, 1:04 PM MST | High Wind Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 23 hr |
| Dec 11, 2:56 PM MST | High Wind Watch | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 30 hr |
| Dec 20, 4:09 AM MST | High Wind Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Chaffee, Costilla, Custer, Fremont, Huerfano and 2 more | 36 hr |
| Dec 26, 1:30 PM MST | High Wind Watch | BOU | Boulder, Clear Creek, Douglas, Gilpin, Grand, Jackson and 4 more | 14 hr |
| Dec 26, 9:10 PM MST | High Wind Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Chaffee, Costilla, Custer, Fremont, Huerfano and 2 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cheyenne County10
- Kit Carson County10
- Las Animas County10
- Yuma County9
- Costilla County9
- Prowers County8
- Elbert County8
- Custer County8
- Fremont County8
- Huerfano County8
- Baca County7
- Bent County7
- Kiowa County7
- Lincoln County7
- Chaffee County7
- Alamosa County7
- Crowley County6
- El Paso County6
- Pueblo County6
- Douglas County6
- Saguache County6
- Otero County5
- Arapahoe County5
- Teller County5
- Morgan County5
- Phillips County5
- Sedgwick County5
- Washington County5
- Weld County4
- Logan County4
- Adams County3
- Conejos County3
- Rio Grande County3
- Boulder County3
- Clear Creek County3
- Gilpin County3
- Jefferson County3
- Larimer County3
- Park County3
- Broomfield 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.