Alert archive / Colorado / Kit Carson County / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kit Carson County, Colorado, 2026

82 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2026. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Kit Carson County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2026. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings: 82
Busiest month: May21 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day: May 16, 20267 severe thunderstorm warnings

Over time

By month

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

45 of 82 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Kit Carson County in 2026 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 59 of 80 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 32 minutes after it went out.

Kit Carson County, 2026

	Warnings	With a report	False alarm ratio	Reports	Inside a warning	Mean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings	82	45	45%	80	74%	32 min

Each office's whole area, 2026

	Warnings	With a report	False alarm ratio	Reports	Inside a warning	Mean lead time
NWS Goodland, KS: severe thunderstorm warnings	338	154	54%	486	78%	30 min

An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.

The year is still running; reports filed late and damage surveys can still change these figures.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

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	Lasted
Apr 11, 5:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	39 min
Apr 11, 5:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	GLD	47 min
Apr 11, 6:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	45 min
Apr 11, 6:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	45 min
Apr 26, 6:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	37 min
Apr 26, 7:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	24 min
May 9, 8:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	68 min
May 16, 3:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	39 min
May 16, 3:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	65 min
May 16, 4:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	32 min
May 16, 4:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	48 min
May 16, 4:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	49 min
May 16, 4:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	58 min
May 16, 5:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	56 min
May 17, 3:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	54 min
May 17, 4:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	58 min
May 17, 4:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	35 min
May 17, 5:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	63 min
May 21, 5:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	34 min
May 21, 6:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	48 min
May 21, 7:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	50 min
May 21, 8:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	39 min
May 21, 9:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	33 min
May 21, 9:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	24 min
May 29, 3:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	61 min
May 29, 4:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	50 min
May 29, 4:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	42 min
Jun 1, 4:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	29 min
Jun 1, 4:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	40 min
Jun 1, 5:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	23 min
Jun 8, 6:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	85 min
Jun 8, 7:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	71 min
Jun 8, 9:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	40 min
Jun 8, 9:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	54 min
Jun 8, 10:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	54 min
Jun 9, 12:06 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	54 min
Jun 9, 2:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	50 min
Jun 20, 5:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	64 min
Jun 21, 2:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	59 min
Jun 21, 3:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	49 min
Jun 21, 3:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	63 min
Jun 22, 7:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	84 min
Jun 22, 8:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	GLD	37 min
Jun 22, 8:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	GLD	38 min
Jun 26, 5:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	23 min
Jun 26, 5:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	59 min
Jun 30, 5:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	23 min
Jun 30, 7:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	56 min
Jul 1, 11:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	27 min
Jul 2, 6:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	19 min
Jul 2, 8:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	60 min
Jul 3, 7:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	35 min
Jul 3, 11:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	53 min
Jul 4, 12:44 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	46 min
Jul 4, 1:07 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	38 min
Jul 4, 1:31 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	44 min
Jul 4, 2:12 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	48 min
Jul 8, 9:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	37 min
Jul 9, 5:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	54 min
Jul 9, 6:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	49 min
Jul 9, 6:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	64 min
Jul 22, 6:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	30 min
Jul 22, 6:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	35 min
Jul 23, 3:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	28 min
Jul 27, 1:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	52 min
Jul 28, 6:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	35 min
Aug 13, 7:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	63 min
Aug 19, 5:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	62 min
Aug 19, 7:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	54 min
Aug 19, 7:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	75 min
Aug 19, 8:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	62 min
Aug 21, 5:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	45 min
Aug 21, 5:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	44 min
Sep 18, 3:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	65 min
Sep 18, 4:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	59 min
Sep 19, 3:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	52 min
Sep 19, 4:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	32 min
Sep 19, 5:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	38 min
Sep 19, 5:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	37 min
Sep 20, 3:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	60 min
Sep 20, 8:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	43 min
Sep 20, 9:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	49 min

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

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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.