Alert archive / Colorado / Red Flag Warnings / 2024
Red Flag Warnings in Colorado, May 2024
16 red flag warnings in May 2024. 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 red flag warnings reaches back to 2005.
Red Flag Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Red Flag Warnings
- 16
- Busiest day
- May 6, 20245 red flag warnings
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 2:38 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | PUB | Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Rio Grande, Saguache | 30 hr |
| May 2, 3:37 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | PUB | Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Rio Grande, Saguache | 40 hr |
| May 4, 2:14 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | PUB | Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Rio Grande, Saguache | 29 hr |
| May 5, 3:57 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | PUB | Alamosa, Baca, Conejos, Costilla, Custer, Huerfano and 5 more | 42 hr |
| May 6, 2:05 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 18 hr |
| May 6, 2:05 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 18 hr |
| May 6, 2:26 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 18 hr |
| May 6, 3:44 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | PUB | Alamosa, Baca, Conejos, Costilla, Custer, Fremont and 6 more | 42 hr |
| May 6, 2:00 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 29 hr |
| May 7, 3:05 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 15 hr |
| May 7, 3:51 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | PUB | Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Las Animas, Otero, Rio Grande and 1 more | 39 hr |
| May 19, 2:15 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | PUB | Costilla, Custer, Huerfano, Las Animas, Pueblo, Saguache | 30 hr |
| May 22, 2:57 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | PUB | Costilla, Custer, Huerfano, Las Animas, Pueblo, Saguache | 30 hr |
| May 22, 8:25 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 23 hr |
| May 24, 2:45 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | PUB | Costilla, Custer, Huerfano, Las Animas, Pueblo, Saguache | 29 hr |
| May 25, 1:22 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 17 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
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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.