Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Colorado, May 2003
8 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2003. 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Severe Thunderstorm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- May 23, 20032 severe thunderstorm watches
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, 3:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Logan, Morgan and 4 more | 6 hr |
| May 18, 4:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arapahoe, Elbert, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Logan, Morgan and 4 more | 7 hr |
| May 22, 2:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Logan, Morgan, Phillips and 4 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 1:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Las Animas, Otero and 2 more | 5 hr |
| May 23, 2:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Douglas, Elbert, El Paso and 5 more | 5 hr |
| May 24, 2:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso and 7 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 4:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso, Lincoln and 5 more | 5 hr |
| May 30, 4:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Bent, Broomfield, Cheyenne, Crowley and 15 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lincoln County7
- Logan County6
- Morgan County6
- Washington County6
- Kit Carson County5
- Elbert County5
- Cheyenne County4
- Kiowa County4
- Phillips County4
- Sedgwick County4
- Yuma County4
- Arapahoe County4
- Weld County4
- Crowley County4
- El Paso County4
- Bent County3
- Otero County3
- Prowers County3
- Pueblo County3
- Adams County3
- Baca County2
- Las Animas County2
- Denver County2
- Douglas County1
- Broomfield County1
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.