Alert archive / Colorado

Weather alerts in Pueblo County, Colorado

5,927 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Pueblo County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
5,927
Warnings
2,665
Watches
1,097
Advisories
631
Busiest year
2023450 alerts
Average year
145over 41 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

Warning verification

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

From 2008 to 2025, 0% of tornado reports in Pueblo County fell inside a tornado warning, and 89% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200820100%10%
20093167%0
201030100%0
2011040%
201220100%0
20144175%0
20157186%0
201710100%0
201810100%10%
201920100%0
202020100%0
202120100%0
202314286%0
202410100%0
202510100%0
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200834876%1479%25 min
2009432053%4994%24 min
2010471568%2383%21 min
201117571%1242%29 min
201213654%475%13 min
201322768%9100%17 min
2014331167%1486%21 min
2015571574%1889%17 min
2016591968%2778%18 min
201736781%1984%14 min
2018732566%1995%16 min
2019491080%2195%19 min
2020591378%1377%17 min
202144784%2564%20 min
202229486%956%24 min
20231172678%2778%16 min
2024631281%1669%19 min
2025751087%1292%13 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200810100%0
200910100%0
20106350%580%29 min
201120100%0
201350100%20%
201412283%250%44 min
20159278%2100%32 min
201680100%0
201715567%667%71 min
201812650%0
201911645%1377%66 min
20209456%7100%27 min
202127678%1788%93 min
20229367%8100%63 min
202310730%6100%29 min
20246350%3100%39 min
202515193%425%80 min

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

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.

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 20, 11:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUB11 min
Sep 20, 10:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUB39 min
Sep 20, 10:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUB37 min
Sep 20, 10:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatPUB40 min
Sep 20, 10:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUB33 min
Sep 20, 9:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUB36 min
Sep 20, 9:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUB32 min
Sep 20, 9:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threatPUB51 min
Sep 20, 9:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatPUB37 min
Sep 9, 11:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatPUB34 min
Sep 9, 11:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUB25 min
Sep 9, 11:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUB36 min

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.