Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings
Tornado Warnings in Colorado, 2003
50 tornado warnings in 2003. 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 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 50
- Busiest month
- June15 tornado warnings
- Busiest day
- April 30, 20037 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 2:45 PM MST | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe | 45 min |
| Mar 17, 3:25 PM MST | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe | 50 min |
| Mar 17, 3:27 PM MST | Tornado Warning | BOU | Arapahoe, Douglas | 48 min |
| Apr 17, 5:40 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Denver, Weld | 50 min |
| Apr 23, 11:46 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe | 44 min |
| Apr 28, 6:09 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan | 31 min |
| Apr 28, 8:00 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Morgan | 45 min |
| Apr 28, 8:49 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams | 41 min |
| Apr 29, 4:55 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 50 min |
| Apr 29, 7:16 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan | 44 min |
| Apr 29, 9:27 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 48 min |
| Apr 30, 1:18 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 57 min |
| Apr 30, 1:27 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 48 min |
| Apr 30, 2:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 47 min |
| Apr 30, 3:15 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 45 min |
| Apr 30, 4:15 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Weld | 60 min |
| May 7, 2:39 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Arapahoe | 51 min |
| May 8, 11:13 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams | 17 min |
| May 8, 11:52 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Denver | 38 min |
| May 8, 12:10 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Weld | 35 min |
| May 8, 12:50 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan | 40 min |
| May 8, 1:12 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan, Washington | 48 min |
| May 15, 3:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Baca | 60 min |
| May 15, 4:13 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 62 min |
| May 26, 6:18 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 42 min |
| May 30, 3:19 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Larimer, Weld | 46 min |
| May 30, 7:32 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan | 43 min |
| May 30, 7:38 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan | 37 min |
| Jun 1, 2:02 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 43 min |
| Jun 1, 2:22 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 53 min |
| Jun 1, 2:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 45 min |
| Jun 4, 3:30 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 60 min |
| Jun 4, 4:32 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 58 min |
| Jun 4, 11:16 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 59 min |
| Jun 4, 12:18 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 27 min |
| Jun 6, 5:18 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan | 42 min |
| Jun 6, 6:14 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe | 46 min |
| Jun 6, 7:14 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 46 min |
| Jun 6, 8:02 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 43 min |
| Jun 6, 9:02 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 58 min |
| Jun 14, 5:21 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 39 min |
| Jun 20, 5:53 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan | 52 min |
| Jun 28, 6:26 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Phillips, Sedgwick | 59 min |
| Jul 7, 5:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan, Washington | 47 min |
| Jul 7, 5:53 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan | 52 min |
| Jul 7, 6:41 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan | 49 min |
| Jul 18, 7:29 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Weld | 46 min |
| Aug 10, 4:25 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Alamosa | 65 min |
| Aug 18, 3:43 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Arapahoe | 32 min |
| Sep 5, 6:02 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Fremont, Pueblo | 58 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.