Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings / 2015

Tornado Warnings in Colorado, May 2015

51 tornado warnings in May 2015. 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 May 2015. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
51
Busiest day
May 9, 201514 tornado warnings

Over time

By day

Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 6, 5:55 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent, Prowers35 min
May 7, 1:38 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBLas Animas37 min
May 7, 4:59 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedPUBBaca15 min
May 7, 6:41 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBOUWeld34 min
May 7, 8:15 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBHuerfano, Las Animas18 min
May 8, 2:43 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBPueblo32 min
May 8, 3:42 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBHuerfano, Las Animas, Otero, Pueblo33 min
May 8, 4:12 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBLas Animas, Otero, Pueblo33 min
May 8, 4:39 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBOtero, Pueblo36 min
May 8, 6:09 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBOtero36 min
May 9, 12:30 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedPUBCrowley14 min
May 9, 2:26 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBPueblo34 min
May 9, 2:52 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBEl Paso, Pueblo23 min
May 9, 3:07 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBEl Paso, Pueblo38 min
May 9, 3:37 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBEl Paso38 min
May 9, 4:10 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUElbert35 min
May 9, 4:17 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULincoln17 min
May 9, 4:24 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa36 min
May 9, 4:37 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUElbert, Lincoln23 min
May 9, 4:38 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGLDCheyenne37 min
May 9, 4:41 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUElbert34 min
May 9, 5:08 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatGLDCheyenne52 min
May 9, 5:50 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne27 min
May 15, 1:35 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUAdams25 min
May 15, 1:58 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUAdams, Morgan, Weld37 min
May 15, 2:10 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWeld50 min
May 15, 2:32 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUMorgan, Weld43 min
May 15, 2:47 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWeld43 min
May 15, 6:45 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUPhillips, Sedgwick45 min
May 19, 2:52 PM MDTTornado WarningGJTMontezuma23 min
May 23, 1:35 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent, Otero25 min
May 24, 12:15 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUArapahoe, Elbert15 min
May 24, 12:33 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUArapahoe, Elbert27 min
May 24, 12:37 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBEl Paso23 min
May 24, 1:00 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUArapahoe18 min
May 24, 3:36 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent, Prowers24 min
May 24, 3:50 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent, Prowers40 min
May 24, 4:25 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBProwers50 min
May 24, 5:07 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBProwers38 min
May 24, 5:41 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBProwers18 min
May 24, 6:06 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBaca, Prowers24 min
May 27, 1:21 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGLDYuma24 min
May 27, 1:41 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGLDYuma34 min
May 27, 2:12 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma33 min
May 27, 2:41 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma34 min
May 27, 4:09 PM MDTTornado WarningGJTRio Blanco36 min
May 28, 2:43 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedPUBLas Animas47 min
May 28, 3:08 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBaca, Las Animas52 min
May 28, 3:46 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGLDKit Carson17 min
May 28, 3:56 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBaca34 min
May 28, 4:23 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBaca9 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

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.