Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings
Tornado Warnings in Colorado, 2013
83 tornado warnings in 2013. 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 2013. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 83
- Busiest month
- June29 tornado warnings
- Busiest day
- August 3, 201320 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 8, 6:23 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 22 min |
| Apr 8, 7:11 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 34 min |
| Apr 8, 7:17 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Phillips | 28 min |
| Apr 8, 7:24 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 36 min |
| Apr 8, 7:34 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan, Washington | 26 min |
| Apr 8, 7:59 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan, Washington | 46 min |
| Apr 8, 8:06 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 24 min |
| Apr 8, 8:33 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 27 min |
| Apr 8, 8:52 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 23 min |
| Apr 8, 8:57 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 18 min |
| Apr 8, 9:00 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan, Phillips | 30 min |
| Apr 8, 9:17 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 28 min |
| Apr 8, 9:31 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Phillips | 29 min |
| Apr 8, 9:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 30 min |
| May 27, 3:55 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 35 min |
| May 27, 4:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 30 min |
| May 27, 4:31 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan | 29 min |
| May 27, 5:03 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan | 27 min |
| May 27, 5:12 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 33 min |
| May 28, 6:27 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Phillips, Sedgwick | 48 min |
| May 28, 7:16 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Sedgwick | 44 min |
| May 28, 8:22 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan | 23 min |
| May 29, 2:48 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 42 min |
| Jun 4, 5:24 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent, Las Animas, Otero | 36 min |
| Jun 4, 5:53 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 37 min |
| Jun 4, 7:05 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent, Kiowa, Prowers | 25 min |
| Jun 4, 7:26 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent, Kiowa, Prowers | 34 min |
| Jun 13, 6:04 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 41 min |
| Jun 13, 6:34 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan, Washington | 41 min |
| Jun 13, 7:14 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick | 46 min |
| Jun 17, 4:56 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 34 min |
| Jun 17, 5:06 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan, Morgan, Weld | 24 min |
| Jun 17, 5:26 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan | 34 min |
| Jun 17, 5:36 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Otero | 24 min |
| Jun 17, 5:52 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan, Washington | 38 min |
| Jun 17, 6:06 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 24 min |
| Jun 17, 6:29 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 31 min |
| Jun 18, 2:07 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe | 23 min |
| Jun 18, 2:09 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Denver | 36 min |
| Jun 18, 3:09 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan, Weld | 36 min |
| Jun 18, 3:15 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Weld | 30 min |
| Jun 18, 3:18 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Arapahoe | 27 min |
| Jun 18, 3:25 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert | 35 min |
| Jun 18, 5:32 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Prowers | 28 min |
| Jun 18, 5:57 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Prowers | 33 min |
| Jun 18, 6:00 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Baca, Prowers | 30 min |
| Jun 21, 4:18 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Sedgwick | 27 min |
| Jun 21, 4:21 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan, Sedgwick | 24 min |
| Jun 21, 4:36 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Sedgwick | 24 min |
| Jun 22, 5:40 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Morgan, Washington | 35 min |
| Jun 23, 7:15 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Washington | 30 min |
| Jun 23, 8:25 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 35 min |
| Jul 20, 5:24 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Weld | 36 min |
| Jul 20, 5:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Arapahoe | 32 min |
| Jul 25, 2:21 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Baca, Prowers | 24 min |
| Jul 25, 2:34 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Baca, Prowers | 26 min |
| Jul 25, 3:11 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Baca | 34 min |
| Jul 31, 8:18 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Arapahoe, Elbert | 27 min |
| Aug 3, 1:53 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan | 37 min |
| Aug 3, 2:01 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 29 min |
| Aug 3, 2:11 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan | 34 min |
| Aug 3, 2:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan | 32 min |
| Aug 3, 2:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 45 min |
| Aug 3, 2:41 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan | 34 min |
| Aug 3, 3:12 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 33 min |
| Aug 3, 3:13 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Larimer, Weld | 47 min |
| Aug 3, 3:16 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan | 29 min |
| Aug 3, 3:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Weld | 45 min |
| Aug 3, 3:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln, Washington | 30 min |
| Aug 3, 4:16 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 29 min |
| Aug 3, 4:27 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert | 33 min |
| Aug 3, 4:31 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Weld | 44 min |
| Aug 3, 4:44 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 31 min |
| Aug 3, 4:54 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert | 36 min |
| Aug 3, 4:55 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Weld | 50 min |
| Aug 3, 5:13 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 32 min |
| Aug 3, 5:39 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 51 min |
| Aug 3, 5:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan, Weld | 45 min |
| Aug 3, 6:35 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert | 25 min |
| Aug 3, 6:50 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | El Paso | 40 min |
| Aug 3, 6:59 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert | 31 min |
| Aug 4, 12:17 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 28 min |
| Aug 4, 12:19 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Prowers | 26 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Washington County19
- Morgan County13
- Prowers County9
- Weld County9
- Logan County8
- Elbert County7
- Sedgwick County6
- Lincoln County6
- Phillips County5
- Cheyenne County4
- Adams County4
- Arapahoe County4
- Baca County4
- Yuma County3
- Kit Carson County3
- Bent County3
- Kiowa County3
- Otero County2
- Las Animas County1
- Denver County1
- Larimer County1
- El Paso County1
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.