Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings
Tornado Warnings in Colorado, 1998
52 tornado warnings in 1998. 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 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 52
- Busiest month
- July22 tornado warnings
- Busiest day
- May 24, 19985 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 5, 5:25 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 45 min |
| May 5, 6:22 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 48 min |
| May 5, 7:11 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 34 min |
| May 8, 3:00 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Otero | 60 min |
| May 11, 5:09 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 46 min |
| May 21, 4:22 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Weld | 28 min |
| May 21, 5:41 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Phillips, Sedgwick | 39 min |
| May 21, 5:47 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Phillips, Sedgwick | 33 min |
| May 21, 6:13 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Phillips, Sedgwick | 22 min |
| May 22, 3:21 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe | 24 min |
| May 22, 5:25 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 50 min |
| May 22, 6:04 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 46 min |
| May 24, 1:34 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Arapahoe | 26 min |
| May 24, 1:55 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams | 35 min |
| May 24, 3:15 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 30 min |
| May 24, 3:44 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 31 min |
| May 24, 5:50 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 60 min |
| May 24, 6:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Otero | 57 min |
| Jun 9, 8:05 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 50 min |
| Jun 21, 3:11 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Arapahoe | 34 min |
| Jun 22, 9:11 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 34 min |
| Jun 22, 9:37 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 63 min |
| Jun 22, 11:07 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 33 min |
| Jul 1, 5:48 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 32 min |
| Jul 1, 6:27 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 33 min |
| Jul 1, 7:15 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Weld | 30 min |
| Jul 1, 7:44 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan, Weld | 31 min |
| Jul 4, 5:18 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Weld | 27 min |
| Jul 15, 2:54 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe | 26 min |
| Jul 15, 3:05 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe | 25 min |
| Jul 15, 3:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Arapahoe, Elbert | 32 min |
| Jul 15, 6:01 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Weld | 29 min |
| Jul 15, 7:22 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan | 33 min |
| Jul 23, 4:08 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe | 37 min |
| Jul 23, 4:12 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 33 min |
| Jul 23, 4:23 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe | 22 min |
| Jul 23, 4:41 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan, Washington | 34 min |
| Jul 23, 5:47 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 28 min |
| Jul 23, 7:37 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 33 min |
| Jul 24, 3:54 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe | 36 min |
| Jul 25, 2:44 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Larimer, Weld | 26 min |
| Jul 25, 5:03 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Denver | 27 min |
| Jul 29, 7:08 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 62 min |
| Jul 30, 7:14 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 56 min |
| Jul 30, 8:12 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent | 58 min |
| Aug 9, 3:48 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams | 27 min |
| Aug 9, 3:57 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan, Weld | 48 min |
| Aug 9, 4:43 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Morgan, Weld | 32 min |
| Aug 9, 5:50 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 35 min |
| Sep 20, 8:27 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan, Weld | 33 min |
| Oct 4, 3:09 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Weld | 36 min |
| Oct 4, 3:09 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Arapahoe, Denver | 36 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
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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. Rebuilt daily.