Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings
Tornado Warnings in Colorado, 2001
83 tornado warnings in 2001. 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 2001. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 83
- Busiest month
- June30 tornado warnings
- Busiest day
- May 29, 200122 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 19, 2:39 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 21 min |
| May 28, 5:41 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe | 34 min |
| May 28, 7:26 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | El Paso | 64 min |
| May 28, 8:21 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 39 min |
| May 28, 8:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 62 min |
| May 28, 8:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | El Paso | 60 min |
| May 28, 8:59 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 31 min |
| May 28, 9:18 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | El Paso | 57 min |
| May 28, 10:17 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 28 min |
| May 28, 10:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 30 min |
| May 28, 11:16 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 29 min |
| May 28, 11:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 30 min |
| May 29, 11:52 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Prowers | 53 min |
| May 29, 12:13 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 62 min |
| May 29, 12:46 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Prowers | 59 min |
| May 29, 1:15 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 60 min |
| May 29, 2:20 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 40 min |
| May 29, 2:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 62 min |
| May 29, 2:31 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 59 min |
| May 29, 2:37 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | El Paso | 53 min |
| May 29, 2:42 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 33 min |
| May 29, 3:26 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 64 min |
| May 29, 3:32 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Prowers | 58 min |
| May 29, 4:19 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 56 min |
| May 31, 2:38 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 37 min |
| May 31, 2:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 45 min |
| May 31, 3:27 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 48 min |
| May 31, 3:44 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 61 min |
| Jun 4, 4:10 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Washington | 35 min |
| Jun 4, 4:10 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan | 35 min |
| Jun 4, 7:27 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | El Paso | 63 min |
| Jun 4, 8:11 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 49 min |
| Jun 7, 4:27 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent | 63 min |
| Jun 7, 4:31 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan, Washington | 44 min |
| Jun 7, 4:32 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 43 min |
| Jun 7, 4:35 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | El Paso | 55 min |
| Jun 7, 5:15 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 30 min |
| Jun 7, 5:43 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 32 min |
| Jun 7, 5:57 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 33 min |
| Jun 7, 6:14 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 31 min |
| Jun 9, 2:14 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 46 min |
| Jun 9, 2:31 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 44 min |
| Jun 9, 3:17 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 43 min |
| Jun 9, 3:19 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 41 min |
| Jun 9, 4:01 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 39 min |
| Jun 9, 4:39 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 36 min |
| Jun 13, 1:06 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe | 24 min |
| Jun 13, 1:27 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Arapahoe | 33 min |
| Jun 20, 6:25 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 35 min |
| Jun 20, 7:11 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Denver | 34 min |
| Jun 20, 7:32 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Denver | 28 min |
| Jun 20, 7:47 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Denver | 33 min |
| Jun 20, 8:08 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Arapahoe, Elbert | 37 min |
| Jun 20, 8:33 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert | 37 min |
| Jun 20, 8:49 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | El Paso | 56 min |
| Jun 26, 1:44 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan | 26 min |
| Jun 29, 2:58 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan | 42 min |
| Jun 29, 3:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan | 30 min |
| Jul 1, 5:25 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick | 50 min |
| Jul 1, 5:41 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 64 min |
| Jul 1, 5:53 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 47 min |
| Jul 3, 5:07 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 38 min |
| Jul 3, 5:12 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 48 min |
| Jul 4, 6:36 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan, Weld | 39 min |
| Jul 9, 8:17 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan | 43 min |
| Jul 9, 8:46 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan, Washington | 29 min |
| Jul 13, 5:50 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan | 30 min |
| Jul 23, 3:46 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Phillips, Sedgwick | 29 min |
| Jul 23, 4:13 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Phillips, Sedgwick | 27 min |
| Jul 24, 7:02 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 28 min |
| Jul 26, 2:37 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe | 23 min |
| Jul 26, 5:29 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 31 min |
| Aug 1, 5:18 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert | 27 min |
| Aug 1, 5:37 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 38 min |
| Aug 1, 5:47 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 28 min |
| Aug 1, 6:55 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 35 min |
| Aug 1, 7:20 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln, Washington | 40 min |
| Aug 1, 8:01 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 29 min |
| Aug 2, 3:18 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe | 27 min |
| Aug 2, 3:47 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams | 43 min |
| Aug 13, 2:17 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Denver | 28 min |
| Sep 14, 3:08 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan, Morgan | 32 min |
| Sep 14, 3:43 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan, Washington | 32 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.
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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.