Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings
Tornado Warnings in Colorado, 1986
14 tornado warnings in 1986. 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 tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.
Tornado Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 14
- Busiest month
- June8 tornado warnings
- Busiest day
- June 9, 19864 tornado warnings
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 12, 10:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 30 min |
| May 14, 8:05 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington, Yuma | 35 min |
| May 15, 6:05 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 29 min |
| Jun 7, 6:10 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Crowley | 50 min |
| Jun 8, 5:17 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe | 23 min |
| Jun 8, 5:44 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams | 26 min |
| Jun 9, 9:49 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Jefferson | 26 min |
| Jun 9, 10:27 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Weld | 23 min |
| Jun 9, 3:46 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe | 24 min |
| Jun 9, 4:35 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Lincoln | 40 min |
| Jun 13, 5:00 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 65 min |
| Aug 1, 4:10 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Baca | 60 min |
| Aug 3, 4:34 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | El Paso | 41 min |
| Sep 18, 6:31 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan, Weld | 29 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
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. Rebuilt daily.