Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings
Tornado Warnings in Colorado, 2012
55 tornado warnings in 2012. 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 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 55
- Busiest month
- June35 tornado warnings
- Busiest day
- June 8, 201212 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 11, 5:01 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 44 min |
| Apr 11, 5:06 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Denver | 24 min |
| Apr 27, 12:46 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Baca | 26 min |
| Apr 27, 1:25 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 50 min |
| Apr 27, 1:44 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent, Kiowa, Prowers | 19 min |
| Apr 27, 1:55 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 50 min |
| Apr 27, 2:18 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 27 min |
| Apr 27, 2:21 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 39 min |
| Apr 27, 2:43 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 32 min |
| Apr 27, 2:56 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 13 min |
| Apr 27, 2:59 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 31 min |
| May 5, 6:32 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan | 43 min |
| May 13, 3:00 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Custer | 22 min |
| Jun 2, 5:09 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 39 min |
| Jun 2, 5:20 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 40 min |
| Jun 2, 5:27 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 34 min |
| Jun 2, 5:34 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 13 min |
| Jun 2, 5:46 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 31 min |
| Jun 2, 5:59 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 27 min |
| Jun 6, 6:35 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert | 40 min |
| Jun 6, 7:07 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Douglas, Elbert | 38 min |
| Jun 6, 7:42 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Douglas, Elbert | 33 min |
| Jun 6, 7:44 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Arapahoe | 31 min |
| Jun 6, 8:05 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Douglas | 25 min |
| Jun 6, 8:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Douglas, Elbert | 30 min |
| Jun 6, 11:50 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Denver, Jefferson | 25 min |
| Jun 7, 5:06 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Arapahoe | 24 min |
| Jun 7, 5:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Arapahoe, Elbert | 32 min |
| Jun 7, 5:54 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert | 36 min |
| Jun 7, 6:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert | 47 min |
| Jun 7, 6:53 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | El Paso | 37 min |
| Jun 7, 7:05 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan, Weld | 40 min |
| Jun 7, 7:14 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert | 31 min |
| Jun 7, 7:27 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | El Paso | 48 min |
| Jun 7, 8:14 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | El Paso | 31 min |
| Jun 7, 8:33 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Weld | 27 min |
| Jun 7, 8:57 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Weld | 33 min |
| Jun 7, 9:25 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Crowley, El Paso, Pueblo | 50 min |
| Jun 7, 9:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Weld | 32 min |
| Jun 7, 9:57 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Weld | 33 min |
| Jun 7, 10:13 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Crowley, El Paso, Pueblo | 47 min |
| Jun 14, 4:03 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Prowers | 12 min |
| Jun 14, 4:14 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Prowers | 26 min |
| Jun 15, 3:02 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams | 28 min |
| Jun 16, 1:39 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Custer, Fremont | 36 min |
| Jun 16, 7:06 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 18 min |
| Jun 22, 8:17 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 7 min |
| Jun 22, 8:23 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 16 min |
| Aug 2, 5:38 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Sedgwick | 52 min |
| Aug 2, 6:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Sedgwick | 45 min |
| Aug 23, 5:35 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 10 min |
| Sep 27, 1:15 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Douglas | 29 min |
| Sep 27, 1:29 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert | 31 min |
| Sep 27, 2:18 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | El Paso, Teller | 27 min |
| Sep 27, 6:29 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent, Otero | 46 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Elbert County9
- Prowers County8
- Kiowa County8
- Douglas County6
- El Paso County6
- Arapahoe County5
- Cheyenne County5
- Weld County5
- Bent County4
- Baca County3
- Adams County3
- Las Animas County2
- Denver County2
- Kit Carson County2
- Logan County2
- Custer County2
- Crowley County2
- Pueblo County2
- Yuma County2
- Sedgwick County2
- Jefferson County1
- Fremont County1
- Teller County1
- Otero County1
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.