Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Watches
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Colorado, 2023
47 severe thunderstorm watches in 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Severe Thunderstorm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 47
- Busiest month
- June17 severe thunderstorm watches
- Busiest day
- June 22, 20233 severe thunderstorm watches
Over time
By month
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 5, 3:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Phillips, Sedgwick, Yuma | 9 hr |
| May 7, 1:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Yuma | 5 hr |
| May 10, 2:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Huerfano, Kiowa, Las Animas and 3 more | 8 hr |
| May 26, 1:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Crowley, Denver and 12 more | 7 hr |
| May 27, 2:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Logan, Morgan, Weld | 7 hr |
| May 29, 2:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick | 7 hr |
| May 30, 3:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick and 2 more | 7 hr |
| May 30, 4:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Kiowa, Prowers | 6 hr |
| Jun 11, 2:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Crowley, Denver and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 12, 12:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 13, 1:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Las Animas | 7 hr |
| Jun 15, 12:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Prowers | 6 hr |
| Jun 16, 1:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso, Kiowa and 5 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 17, 12:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 21, 12:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Denver and 7 more | 9 hr |
| Jun 21, 4:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, El Paso, Huerfano and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 21, 9:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Bent, Cheyenne, Clear Creek, Crowley and 12 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 22, 12:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and 9 more | 10 hr |
| Jun 22, 1:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Las Animas | 7 hr |
| Jun 23, 2:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Prowers | 7 hr |
| Jun 26, 8:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick | 4 hr |
| Jun 27, 1:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Prowers | 6 hr |
| Jun 27, 2:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Kit Carson, Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Yuma | 8 hr |
| Jun 28, 9:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 30, 12:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 4, 2:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Bent, Boulder, Broomfield, Cheyenne and 22 more | 9 hr |
| Jul 5, 3:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Custer, El Paso, Fremont and 7 more | 10 hr |
| Jul 6, 2:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 7, 1:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Crowley, Custer, El Paso, Fremont, Huerfano and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 8, 1:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Cheyenne, Denver and 13 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 8, 4:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Crowley, El Paso, Kiowa, Las Animas and 3 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 10, 1:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 13, 12:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso and 10 more | 10 hr |
| Jul 13, 1:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Weld | 7 hr |
| Jul 15, 2:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Las Animas | 9 hr |
| Jul 19, 2:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, El Paso, Kiowa and 7 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 20, 1:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Boulder, Broomfield and 22 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 3, 2:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert and 12 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 4, 5:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Yuma | 6 hr |
| Aug 5, 1:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley and 16 more | 10 hr |
| Aug 7, 2:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley and 14 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 8, 2:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Elbert, Kit Carson, Lincoln and 7 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 8, 9:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 6 hr |
| Aug 12, 2:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Prowers | 7 hr |
| Sep 9, 4:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne | 6 hr |
| Sep 10, 2:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Las Animas, Otero and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 3, 12:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bent County23
- Prowers County23
- Cheyenne County23
- Baca County22
- Kiowa County21
- Crowley County20
- Otero County20
- Lincoln County20
- Yuma County19
- Kit Carson County19
- Elbert County18
- El Paso County18
- Las Animas County17
- Pueblo County17
- Logan County17
- Washington County16
- Adams County14
- Phillips County13
- Sedgwick County13
- Arapahoe County13
- Morgan County13
- Weld County13
- Huerfano County11
- Denver County10
- Douglas County10
- Jefferson County8
- Boulder County7
- Broomfield County7
- Larimer County7
- Teller County7
- Fremont County3
- Clear Creek County3
- Gilpin County3
- Custer County2
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.