Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2020
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Colorado, August 2020
5 severe thunderstorm watches in August 2020. 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- August 2, 20201 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 2, 1:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Crowley and 18 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 4, 1:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Boulder, Broomfield and 22 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 5, 1:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Bent, Boulder, Broomfield, Cheyenne and 22 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 16, 1:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson and 6 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 29, 2:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Las Animas, Otero | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Otero County5
- Crowley County4
- Lincoln County4
- Bent County4
- Adams County3
- Arapahoe County3
- Boulder County3
- Broomfield County3
- Denver County3
- Douglas County3
- Elbert County3
- El Paso County3
- Jefferson County3
- Larimer County3
- Las Animas County3
- Morgan County3
- Pueblo County3
- Weld County3
- Baca County3
- Cheyenne County3
- Kiowa County3
- Kit Carson County3
- Phillips County3
- Prowers County3
- Washington County3
- Yuma County3
- Fremont County2
- Teller County2
- Logan County2
- Sedgwick County2
- Clear Creek County1
- Custer County1
- Gilpin County1
- Huerfano County1
- Park 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.