Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2017
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Colorado, May 2017
8 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2017. 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- May 9, 20172 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 8, 12:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Bent, Boulder, Broomfield, Cheyenne and 22 more | 7 hr |
| May 9, 11:15 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bent, Costilla, Crowley, Huerfano, Las Animas, Otero and 1 more | 9 hr |
| May 9, 5:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Prowers and 1 more | 7 hr |
| May 15, 2:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Prowers | 7 hr |
| May 16, 6:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Yuma | 5 hr |
| May 25, 1:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Phillips, Washington, Yuma | 7 hr |
| May 26, 1:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Boulder, Broomfield and 22 more | 9 hr |
| May 27, 4:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Las Animas, Otero, Prowers | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bent County5
- Yuma County5
- Cheyenne County4
- Kit Carson County4
- Las Animas County4
- Otero County4
- Baca County4
- Prowers County4
- Crowley County3
- Kiowa County3
- Phillips County3
- Pueblo County3
- Washington County3
- Adams County2
- Arapahoe County2
- Boulder County2
- Broomfield County2
- Denver County2
- Douglas County2
- Elbert County2
- El Paso County2
- Huerfano County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lincoln County2
- Logan County2
- Morgan County2
- Sedgwick County2
- Weld County2
- Fremont County1
- Teller County1
- Costilla County1
- Larimer County1
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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.