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Tornado Warnings in Colorado, 2016

86 tornado warnings in 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
86
Busiest month
May33 tornado warnings
Busiest day
May 7, 201611 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 15, 1:51 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent, Kiowa24 min
Apr 15, 2:07 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa38 min
Apr 15, 2:39 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa36 min
Apr 15, 3:21 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne24 min
Apr 15, 3:22 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa8 min
Apr 15, 4:41 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson34 min
Apr 15, 5:04 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson26 min
Apr 15, 7:21 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBaca24 min
Apr 15, 7:41 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBaca37 min
May 7, 12:55 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUElbert22 min
May 7, 1:29 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUArapahoe, Elbert16 min
May 7, 2:46 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUMorgan, Weld29 min
May 7, 3:12 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUMorgan, Weld33 min
May 7, 3:34 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUMorgan26 min
May 7, 3:36 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBOUWeld24 min
May 7, 3:54 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWeld36 min
May 7, 4:08 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma23 min
May 7, 4:56 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma22 min
May 7, 5:30 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma30 min
May 7, 5:51 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma24 min
May 7, 6:10 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatGLDYuma35 min
May 7, 6:33 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma27 min
May 7, 6:58 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma20 min
May 7, 7:07 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUPhillips38 min
May 24, 5:44 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBOUAdams, Morgan31 min
May 24, 6:05 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUMorgan, Washington25 min
May 24, 6:26 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWashington34 min
May 24, 7:01 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBOUWashington29 min
May 24, 7:19 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma26 min
May 24, 7:43 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGLDYuma32 min
May 24, 8:15 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma30 min
May 26, 5:08 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatGLDCheyenne15 min
May 26, 5:24 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson21 min
May 26, 5:55 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson, Yuma65 min
May 27, 2:13 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma32 min
May 27, 2:25 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma35 min
May 27, 2:44 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedPUBKiowa31 min
May 27, 3:00 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne30 min
May 27, 3:10 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedPUBKiowa35 min
May 27, 3:23 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne21 min
May 27, 3:43 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa32 min
May 30, 2:11 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULogan34 min
Jun 6, 2:20 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne25 min
Jun 13, 1:25 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBLas Animas35 min
Jun 13, 1:46 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedPUBLas Animas29 min
Jun 13, 5:26 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUAdams, Morgan34 min
Jun 20, 6:54 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUPark36 min
Jun 20, 7:17 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUPark28 min
Jun 23, 6:52 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWashington23 min
Jun 27, 4:08 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULogan, Washington37 min
Jun 27, 4:39 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBOUPhillips, Sedgwick51 min
Jun 27, 4:48 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUPhillips, Sedgwick27 min
Jun 27, 5:27 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUPhillips33 min
Jun 27, 5:47 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma28 min
Jun 28, 9:07 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma23 min
Jun 28, 9:37 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma38 min
Jun 28, 10:03 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma27 min
Jun 28, 10:08 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson12 min
Jun 28, 10:27 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson15 min
Jun 29, 6:39 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson15 min
Jun 30, 7:15 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGLDKit Carson30 min
Jul 1, 5:26 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent34 min
Jul 1, 8:22 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBaca24 min
Jul 1, 8:26 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBaca21 min
Jul 2, 6:33 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBOUAdams, Arapahoe13 min
Jul 8, 2:25 AM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa, Prowers35 min
Jul 8, 4:03 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBEl Paso42 min
Jul 14, 6:20 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBLas Animas25 min
Jul 15, 1:43 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne17 min
Jul 15, 2:10 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGLDCheyenne35 min
Jul 15, 2:26 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedPUBKiowa34 min
Jul 15, 3:00 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa, Prowers30 min
Jul 15, 3:29 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa, Prowers31 min
Jul 17, 5:42 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWeld33 min
Jul 17, 6:11 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULogan, Weld34 min
Jul 28, 7:24 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULincoln36 min
Sep 2, 4:07 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBOUWashington23 min
Sep 2, 4:11 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGLDYuma34 min
Sep 2, 4:44 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma31 min
Sep 2, 5:15 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma30 min
Sep 2, 6:01 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma29 min
Sep 3, 6:26 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWashington34 min
Sep 3, 6:27 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWashington33 min
Sep 3, 7:00 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWashington27 min
Sep 4, 5:36 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUMorgan, Washington15 min
Sep 17, 4:09 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne36 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.

  1. May 7, 201611tornado warnings
  2. April 15, 20167tornado warnings
  3. May 27, 20167tornado warnings
  4. May 25, 20166tornado warnings
  5. July 15, 20166tornado warnings
  6. June 27, 20165tornado warnings
  7. June 29, 20165tornado warnings
  8. May 8, 20164tornado warnings
  9. September 2, 20164tornado warnings
  10. September 4, 20164tornado warnings
  11. May 26, 20163tornado warnings
  12. June 13, 20163tornado warnings

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.