Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings / 2016

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, May 2016

89 severe thunderstorm warnings in May 2016. 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 severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2016. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings: 89
Busiest day: May 7, 201624 severe thunderstorm 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 7, 12:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	32 min
May 7, 1:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Arapahoe, Elbert	31 min
May 7, 1:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Adams, Arapahoe	32 min
May 7, 1:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	48 min
May 7, 2:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Arapahoe, Elbert	52 min
May 7, 2:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Weld	35 min
May 7, 2:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Morgan, Weld	31 min
May 7, 2:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Adams	28 min
May 7, 2:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	49 min
May 7, 2:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Morgan, Weld	29 min
May 7, 2:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Adams, Arapahoe	40 min
May 7, 2:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson, Yuma	51 min
May 7, 3:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Washington	27 min
May 7, 3:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	39 min
May 7, 3:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	37 min
May 7, 3:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	48 min
May 7, 3:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Adams, Morgan	32 min
May 7, 4:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	46 min
May 7, 4:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Adams, Morgan, Washington	36 min
May 7, 4:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	30 min
May 7, 5:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	49 min
May 7, 5:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Washington	28 min
May 7, 5:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Phillips	31 min
May 7, 5:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Washington	36 min
May 7, 6:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	43 min
May 7, 6:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Phillips	34 min
May 8, 2:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	48 min
May 8, 3:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Adams	21 min
May 9, 8:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GJT	Eagle, Garfield, Pitkin	28 min
May 10, 6:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	25 min
May 16, 12:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	37 min
May 16, 12:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	31 min
May 16, 1:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	33 min
May 16, 2:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	22 min
May 24, 1:30 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Washington	30 min
May 24, 1:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Jefferson	30 min
May 24, 1:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Adams, Broomfield, Jefferson	31 min
May 24, 2:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Arapahoe, Denver	25 min
May 24, 2:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Adams, Broomfield, Weld	45 min
May 24, 2:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Weld	47 min
May 24, 3:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Adams	32 min
May 24, 4:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Adams, Morgan	24 min
May 24, 4:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Adams, Morgan	32 min
May 24, 5:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Adams, Washington	27 min
May 24, 5:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Adams, Morgan	29 min
May 24, 10:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	43 min
May 25, 3:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Washington	18 min
May 26, 12:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas	61 min
May 26, 1:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Douglas	52 min
May 26, 1:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Adams, Arapahoe, Denver	49 min
May 26, 1:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	48 min
May 26, 1:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Pueblo	47 min
May 26, 2:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	26 min
May 26, 2:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas, Otero, Pueblo	53 min
May 26, 2:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Adams, Arapahoe	14 min
May 26, 2:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Pueblo	52 min
May 26, 2:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	10 min
May 26, 2:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, El Paso, Pueblo	32 min
May 26, 2:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Otero, Pueblo	58 min
May 26, 3:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Lincoln	27 min
May 26, 3:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Lincoln	24 min
May 26, 4:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	31 min
May 26, 4:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	41 min
May 26, 4:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	47 min
May 26, 5:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	43 min
May 26, 5:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	48 min
May 26, 5:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	40 min
May 26, 5:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	49 min
May 26, 5:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	47 min
May 26, 5:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	56 min
May 26, 5:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	64 min
May 26, 6:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson, Yuma	51 min
May 27, 11:54 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	20 min
May 27, 12:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	12 min
May 27, 12:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	27 min
May 27, 12:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	21 min
May 27, 1:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	22 min
May 27, 2:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	26 min
May 27, 2:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	38 min
May 27, 2:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	37 min
May 29, 3:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Bent, Las Animas, Otero	33 min
May 29, 6:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	20 min
May 29, 8:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Phillips, Sedgwick	49 min
May 30, 4:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	40 min
May 30, 4:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	48 min
May 30, 5:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	25 min
May 30, 6:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	43 min
May 31, 1:57 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	45 min
May 31, 4:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Custer	42 min

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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. Rebuilt daily.