Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings / 2016

Tornado Warnings in Colorado, May 2016

33 tornado warnings in May 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 May 2016. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
33
Busiest day
May 7, 201611 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 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

By county

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

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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.