Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2018
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Colorado, August 2018
5 severe thunderstorm watches in August 2018. 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 August 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- August 6, 20182 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 12:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick | 5 hr |
| Aug 6, 12:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Custer, Douglas, Elbert and 10 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 6, 2:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Jefferson and 5 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 7, 1:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bent, Crowley, Custer, Douglas, Elbert, El Paso and 7 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 18, 12:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso and 8 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bent County3
- Crowley County3
- Elbert County3
- El Paso County3
- Huerfano County3
- Las Animas County3
- Lincoln County3
- Otero County3
- Pueblo County3
- Logan County2
- Baca County2
- Custer County2
- Douglas County2
- Fremont County2
- Kiowa County2
- Prowers County2
- Teller County2
- Phillips County1
- Sedgwick County1
- Adams County1
- Arapahoe County1
- Boulder County1
- Broomfield County1
- Denver County1
- Jefferson County1
- Larimer County1
- Morgan County1
- Washington County1
- Weld County1
- Cheyenne County1
- Kit Carson 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.