Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings / 2023

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, May 2023

171 severe thunderstorm warnings in May 2023. 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 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings: 171
Busiest day: May 10, 202334 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 4, 3:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Adams, Arapahoe, Denver	44 min
May 5, 4:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Phillips, Sedgwick	44 min
May 5, 5:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Phillips, Sedgwick	44 min
May 5, 6:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	BOU	Phillips	25 min
May 7, 2:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson, Yuma	39 min
May 9, 6:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Adams, Weld	49 min
May 9, 7:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Adams, Denver, Weld	45 min
May 9, 7:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Larimer, Weld	44 min
May 9, 9:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Morgan, Weld	48 min
May 9, 9:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BOU	Morgan	50 min
May 9, 10:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Boulder, Weld	47 min
May 9, 10:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Morgan	47 min
May 9, 10:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Adams, Boulder, Broomfield, Weld	63 min
May 9, 11:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Boulder, Larimer, Weld	64 min
May 9, 11:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Broomfield, Weld	53 min
May 10, 12:41 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Weld	64 min
May 10, 1:21 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Morgan, Weld	39 min
May 10, 2:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Douglas, Jefferson	47 min
May 10, 2:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Teller	27 min
May 10, 3:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Douglas	38 min
May 10, 3:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Fremont	47 min
May 10, 3:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Teller	24 min
May 10, 3:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Fremont, Teller	46 min
May 10, 4:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Pueblo	43 min
May 10, 4:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	48 min
May 10, 4:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Teller	32 min
May 10, 4:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Douglas, Elbert	32 min
May 10, 4:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Adams, Arapahoe, Elbert	30 min
May 10, 4:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Adams, Arapahoe	40 min
May 10, 4:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	El Paso, Pueblo	25 min
May 10, 4:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	53 min
May 10, 4:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Arapahoe, Elbert	31 min
May 10, 5:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Yuma	59 min
May 10, 5:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BOU	Adams, Morgan	43 min
May 10, 5:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Phillips, Sedgwick	51 min
May 10, 5:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Adams, Morgan	41 min
May 10, 5:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BOU	Phillips, Sedgwick	52 min
May 10, 5:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Logan, Phillips	50 min
May 10, 5:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	35 min
May 10, 6:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Washington	40 min
May 10, 6:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	27 min
May 10, 6:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Logan, Weld	48 min
May 10, 9:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Otero	33 min
May 11, 11:46 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson, Yuma	44 min
May 11, 3:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	32 min
May 11, 4:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	41 min
May 12, 4:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Custer, Huerfano	37 min
May 16, 5:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	30 min
May 17, 11:46 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas	44 min
May 17, 2:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	23 min
May 17, 2:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	51 min
May 17, 3:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	42 min
May 17, 4:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	26 min
May 17, 4:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Bent, Las Animas	30 min
May 17, 5:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Bent, Prowers	36 min
May 17, 5:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Bent, Las Animas	33 min
May 17, 5:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Prowers	23 min
May 17, 6:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	53 min
May 17, 7:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	63 min
May 18, 4:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	33 min
May 18, 5:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	54 min
May 18, 5:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa	31 min
May 24, 1:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Arapahoe, Douglas	49 min
May 24, 2:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	49 min
May 24, 2:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Pueblo	36 min
May 24, 2:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Pueblo	27 min
May 24, 3:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	27 min
May 24, 3:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	PUB	Pueblo	49 min
May 24, 3:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Arapahoe, Elbert	25 min
May 24, 3:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Las Animas, Otero	38 min
May 24, 4:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	36 min
May 24, 4:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Pueblo	23 min
May 24, 4:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent	31 min
May 24, 4:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Otero	29 min
May 24, 4:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Pueblo	24 min
May 24, 4:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Otero	36 min
May 24, 5:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	20 min
May 24, 5:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero	34 min
May 24, 5:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, El Paso, Pueblo	42 min
May 24, 6:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	46 min
May 25, 2:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GJT	Moffat, Rio Blanco	33 min
May 25, 3:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Arapahoe, Denver	41 min
May 25, 3:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	32 min
May 25, 3:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Arapahoe, Denver	48 min
May 25, 5:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	21 min
May 25, 5:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley	45 min
May 25, 6:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	50 min
May 25, 6:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	49 min
May 25, 7:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	23 min
May 25, 7:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	28 min
May 25, 7:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	40 min
May 25, 7:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	10 min
May 25, 7:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	51 min
May 25, 7:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Adams, Arapahoe	50 min
May 25, 8:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	31 min
May 26, 1:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas, Pueblo	25 min
May 26, 2:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Adams, Broomfield, Denver, Jefferson	39 min
May 26, 2:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Weld	50 min
May 26, 2:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Boulder, Larimer, Weld	22 min
May 26, 2:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Custer, Fremont, Pueblo	28 min
May 26, 2:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Weld	47 min
May 26, 3:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Weld	48 min
May 26, 3:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Weld	47 min
May 26, 3:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Fremont, Pueblo, Teller	27 min
May 26, 3:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	47 min
May 26, 3:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Las Animas, Otero	31 min
May 26, 3:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	39 min
May 26, 3:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Weld	21 min
May 26, 4:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Las Animas, Otero	29 min
May 26, 4:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	27 min
May 26, 4:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Weld	25 min
May 26, 4:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	32 min
May 26, 4:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Elbert	43 min
May 26, 4:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Adams, Arapahoe	50 min
May 26, 5:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Logan, Morgan, Washington	47 min
May 27, 1:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley	36 min
May 27, 3:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa	36 min
May 27, 3:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Larimer, Weld	49 min
May 27, 3:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Weld	30 min
May 27, 3:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa	31 min
May 27, 3:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Weld	44 min
May 27, 3:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Larimer, Weld	27 min
May 27, 4:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa	32 min
May 27, 4:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Bent, Kiowa, Prowers	33 min
May 27, 5:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Adams, Weld	43 min
May 27, 5:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Bent, Kiowa, Prowers	32 min
May 27, 5:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Weld	32 min
May 27, 5:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Bent, Kiowa, Prowers	32 min
May 27, 6:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Bent, Kiowa, Prowers	31 min
May 27, 6:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	24 min
May 27, 9:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Elbert	17 min
May 28, 3:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Weld	33 min
May 28, 3:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Weld	32 min
May 28, 5:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Weld	26 min
May 28, 5:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Logan, Morgan, Weld	31 min
May 28, 5:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Logan, Washington	47 min
May 28, 6:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Adams, Washington	38 min
May 28, 6:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Adams, Arapahoe	37 min
May 28, 6:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Adams	30 min
May 29, 6:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	23 min
May 29, 6:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	32 min
May 29, 7:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	56 min
May 29, 8:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Pueblo	36 min
May 29, 8:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	51 min
May 29, 8:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Pueblo	27 min
May 29, 8:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Pueblo	29 min
May 29, 9:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Otero, Pueblo	26 min
May 30, 2:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Adams, Arapahoe	24 min
May 30, 3:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	65 min
May 30, 4:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa, Prowers	42 min
May 30, 5:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	45 min
May 30, 5:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	44 min
May 30, 6:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	26 min
May 30, 6:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	31 min
May 30, 6:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick	44 min
May 30, 6:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	54 min
May 30, 6:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	23 min
May 30, 7:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Logan, Sedgwick	32 min
May 30, 7:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Phillips	39 min
May 30, 7:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Phillips, Sedgwick	47 min
May 30, 8:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BOU	Phillips, Sedgwick	51 min
May 31, 1:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero	50 min
May 31, 1:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa, Prowers	39 min
May 31, 2:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa	34 min
May 31, 2:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa	32 min
May 31, 2:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa, Prowers	50 min
May 31, 3:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Adams, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Jefferson, Weld	42 min
May 31, 3:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Boulder, Weld	50 min
May 31, 4:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	30 min
May 31, 4:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Boulder, Larimer, Weld	41 min
May 31, 4:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Weld	18 min

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.