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High Wind Watches in Colorado, 2025

22 high wind watches in 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.

High Wind Watches
22
Busiest month
March10 high wind watches
Busiest day
March 12, 20253 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 1, 7:57 PM MSTHigh Wind WatchBOUBoulder, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Douglas, Gilpin, Grand and 5 more8 hr
Feb 13, 3:01 AM MSTHigh Wind WatchPUBHuerfano, Las Animas11 hr
Mar 2, 1:58 AM MSTHigh Wind WatchGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma33 hr
Mar 2, 3:07 AM MSTHigh Wind WatchPUBBaca, Bent, Crowley, El Paso, Huerfano, Kiowa and 4 more25 hr
Mar 3, 2:20 AM MSTHigh Wind WatchBOUAdams, Arapahoe, Larimer, Logan, Morgan, Weld10 hr
Mar 5, 3:11 AM MSTHigh Wind WatchPUBAlamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Rio Grande, Saguache11 hr
Mar 12, 1:42 AM MDTHigh Wind WatchGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma34 hr
Mar 12, 2:23 PM MDTHigh Wind WatchPUBBaca, Bent, Costilla, Huerfano, Kiowa, Las Animas and 1 more23 hr
Mar 12, 2:35 PM MDTHigh Wind WatchBOUElbert, Lincoln, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick and 2 more23 hr
Mar 16, 2:05 PM MDTHigh Wind WatchPUBAlamosa, Baca, Bent, Conejos, Costilla, Crowley and 8 more35 hr
Mar 17, 1:17 PM MDTHigh Wind WatchGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma12 hr
Mar 30, 1:50 PM MDTHigh Wind WatchPUBAlamosa, Baca, Bent, Conejos, Costilla, Huerfano and 6 more24 hr
Apr 16, 2:30 PM MDTHigh Wind WatchPUBAlamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Huerfano, Las Animas, Rio Grande6 hr
Oct 19, 2:42 AM MDTHigh Wind WatchPUBCostilla, Huerfano, Las Animas11 hr
Dec 7, 12:57 PM MSTHigh Wind WatchBOUBoulder, Clear Creek, Gilpin, Grand, Jackson, Jefferson and 3 more20 hr
Dec 8, 9:12 AM MSTHigh Wind WatchBOUBoulder, Broomfield, Jefferson, Larimer, Weld18 hr
Dec 15, 12:55 PM MSTHigh Wind WatchBOUBoulder, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Douglas, Gilpin, Grand and 6 more13 hr
Dec 15, 12:58 PM MSTHigh Wind WatchPUBChaffee, El Paso, Fremont, Lake, Saguache, Teller13 hr
Dec 16, 1:51 AM MSTHigh Wind WatchBOULogan, Morgan, Weld24 hr
Dec 16, 12:53 PM MSTHigh Wind WatchGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma22 hr
Dec 17, 1:35 AM MSTHigh Wind WatchBOUPhillips, Sedgwick13 hr
Dec 17, 2:26 PM MSTHigh Wind WatchBOUBoulder, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Douglas, Gilpin, Grand and 6 more51 hr

By county

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

3 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. March 12, 20253high wind watches
  2. March 2, 20252high wind watches
  3. December 15, 20252high wind watches
  4. December 16, 20252high wind watches
  5. December 17, 20252high wind watches
  6. February 2, 20251high wind watches
  7. February 13, 20251high wind watches
  8. March 3, 20251high wind watches
  9. March 5, 20251high wind watches
  10. March 16, 20251high wind watches
  11. March 17, 20251high wind watches
  12. March 30, 20251high 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.