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Tornado Warnings in Colorado, 1988

29 tornado warnings in 1988. 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 1988. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
29
Busiest month
June15 tornado warnings
Busiest day
July 8, 19886 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 2, 10:20 AM MDTTornado WarningPUBProwers25 min
May 19, 2:59 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUYuma31 min
May 30, 8:00 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa, Prowers30 min
May 30, 9:22 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne38 min
Jun 5, 3:04 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUAdams, Jefferson, Weld31 min
Jun 5, 3:04 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUBoulder31 min
Jun 5, 3:30 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUBoulder, Larimer, Weld30 min
Jun 5, 3:30 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUAdams, Jefferson30 min
Jun 8, 6:10 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUAdams, Arapahoe30 min
Jun 10, 3:50 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUArapahoe, Douglas30 min
Jun 10, 4:18 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUArapahoe, Douglas32 min
Jun 10, 4:18 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUAdams32 min
Jun 15, 4:05 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUAdams30 min
Jun 15, 4:19 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUAdams, Arapahoe, Denver41 min
Jun 15, 5:17 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUMorgan, Weld33 min
Jun 15, 5:45 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULogan, Morgan, Washington30 min
Jun 22, 4:34 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUAdams, Weld31 min
Jun 25, 2:50 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULarimer, Weld30 min
Jun 26, 2:13 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUAdams, Arapahoe32 min
Jul 7, 1:43 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson32 min
Jul 7, 6:14 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWeld31 min
Jul 8, 2:08 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDElbert37 min
Jul 8, 3:49 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUAdams, Arapahoe31 min
Jul 8, 5:17 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUAdams33 min
Jul 8, 5:35 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULogan30 min
Jul 8, 5:53 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUAdams, Arapahoe32 min
Jul 9, 8:12 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUArapahoe13 min
Jul 18, 6:21 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWashington39 min
Aug 2, 11:45 AM MDTTornado WarningGJTMesa45 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.

  1. July 8, 19886tornado warnings
  2. June 5, 19884tornado warnings
  3. June 15, 19884tornado warnings
  4. June 10, 19883tornado warnings
  5. May 31, 19882tornado warnings
  6. May 2, 19881tornado warnings
  7. May 19, 19881tornado warnings
  8. June 9, 19881tornado warnings
  9. June 22, 19881tornado warnings
  10. June 25, 19881tornado warnings
  11. June 26, 19881tornado warnings
  12. July 7, 19881tornado warnings

Nearby

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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.