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High Wind Watches in Colorado, 2023

26 high wind 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 high wind watches reaches back to 2005.

High Wind Watches by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2023. Tap one for its archive.

High Wind Watches
26
Busiest month
February9 high wind watches
Busiest day
October 11, 20233 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
Jan 10, 2:45 PM MSTHigh Wind WatchPUBBaca, Bent, Huerfano, Las Animas, Otero, Prowers and 1 more10 hr
Feb 7, 11:54 AM MSTHigh Wind WatchGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma26 hr
Feb 7, 2:51 PM MSTHigh Wind WatchPUBBaca, Bent, Kiowa, Prowers24 hr
Feb 14, 1:58 AM MSTHigh Wind WatchGJTGarfield, Moffat, Rio Blanco, Routt12 hr
Feb 17, 3:21 PM MSTHigh Wind WatchPUBCostilla, Huerfano, Las Animas12 hr
Feb 18, 2:12 AM MSTHigh Wind WatchBOUBoulder, Clear Creek, Douglas, Gilpin, Grand, Jackson and 4 more25 hr
Feb 18, 3:47 AM MSTHigh Wind WatchPUBAlamosa, Chaffee, Costilla, Custer, El Paso, Fremont and 3 more24 hr
Feb 20, 3:00 PM MSTHigh Wind WatchPUBAlamosa, Baca, Conejos, Costilla, Las Animas, Rio Grande14 hr
Feb 24, 4:07 AM MSTHigh Wind WatchPUBAlamosa, Baca, Bent, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla and 9 more35 hr
Feb 25, 2:08 PM MSTHigh Wind WatchBOUBoulder, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Douglas, Gilpin, Jefferson and 3 more22 hr
Mar 3, 2:55 PM MSTHigh Wind WatchPUBAlamosa, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla, Custer, Fremont and 5 more24 hr
Mar 20, 2:57 PM MDTHigh Wind WatchPUBAlamosa, Baca, Bent, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla and 13 more24 hr
Mar 28, 2:48 PM MDTHigh Wind WatchPUBAlamosa, Baca, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla, Custer and 7 more24 hr
Mar 30, 2:54 PM MDTHigh Wind WatchPUBHuerfano, Las Animas, Pueblo13 hr
Apr 1, 2:44 AM MDTHigh Wind WatchGJTDelta, Dolores, Garfield, Gunnison, La Plata, Mesa and 4 more24 hr
Apr 2, 4:33 AM MDTHigh Wind WatchPUBAlamosa, Baca, Bent, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla and 10 more48 hr
Oct 11, 1:59 AM MDTHigh Wind WatchGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma24 hr
Oct 11, 2:16 AM MDTHigh Wind WatchBOUElbert, Lincoln, Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington35 hr
Oct 11, 3:23 AM MDTHigh Wind WatchPUBKiowa24 hr
Nov 19, 11:46 AM MSTHigh Wind WatchGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson15 hr
Dec 1, 1:45 PM MSTHigh Wind WatchBOUBoulder, Clear Creek, Douglas, Gilpin, Jefferson, Larimer and 1 more23 hr
Dec 2, 4:05 AM MSTHigh Wind WatchPUBEl Paso, Fremont, Teller7 hr
Dec 2, 11:25 AM MSTHigh Wind WatchPUBAlamosa, Chaffee, Costilla, Custer, Fremont, Huerfano and 3 more7 hr
Dec 5, 2:22 PM MSTHigh Wind WatchBOUBoulder, Clear Creek, Douglas, Gilpin, Grand, Jackson and 4 more23 hr
Dec 9, 3:55 AM MSTHigh Wind WatchBOUBoulder, Clear Creek, Douglas, Gilpin, Grand, Jackson and 4 more9 hr
Dec 24, 8:28 PM MSTHigh Wind WatchBOUAdams, Arapahoe, Elbert, Larimer, Lincoln, Logan and 3 more6 hr

By county

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

17 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. October 11, 20233high wind watches
  2. February 7, 20232high wind watches
  3. February 18, 20232high wind watches
  4. December 2, 20232high wind watches
  5. January 10, 20231high wind watches
  6. February 14, 20231high wind watches
  7. February 17, 20231high wind watches
  8. February 20, 20231high wind watches
  9. February 24, 20231high wind watches
  10. February 25, 20231high wind watches
  11. March 3, 20231high wind watches
  12. March 20, 20231high 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.