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Tornado Warnings in Colorado, 2017

41 tornado warnings in 2017. 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
41
Busiest month
June19 tornado warnings
Busiest day
May 27, 20177 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
May 8, 2:20 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBCuster, Huerfano, Pueblo25 min
May 8, 2:50 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUArapahoe, Elbert28 min
May 25, 1:10 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBOULogan19 min
May 25, 3:39 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma36 min
May 26, 4:19 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWashington26 min
May 26, 5:10 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWashington35 min
May 26, 5:28 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma32 min
May 26, 5:56 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma34 min
May 26, 6:25 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWashington15 min
May 26, 6:25 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma12 min
May 26, 6:43 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson, Yuma47 min
May 26, 7:15 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGLDKit Carson17 min
May 26, 7:52 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBEl Paso23 min
May 26, 8:14 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBEl Paso21 min
May 27, 3:53 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBHuerfano, Las Animas37 min
Jun 5, 4:01 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUMorgan29 min
Jun 7, 6:29 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBOUWashington46 min
Jun 7, 7:13 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWashington47 min
Jun 12, 3:15 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWeld30 min
Jun 12, 3:45 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWeld30 min
Jun 12, 3:46 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWeld29 min
Jun 12, 4:13 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWeld32 min
Jun 12, 4:35 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWeld25 min
Jun 22, 2:12 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBEl Paso20 min
Jun 25, 3:25 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBaca35 min
Jun 25, 3:43 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedPUBBaca47 min
Jun 25, 4:34 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBaca26 min
Jun 28, 10:40 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULincoln20 min
Jun 28, 10:42 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson33 min
Jun 28, 10:52 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUElbert, Lincoln23 min
Jun 28, 11:10 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson14 min
Jun 28, 11:16 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULincoln19 min
Jun 29, 3:57 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson33 min
Jun 29, 4:25 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent, Kiowa25 min
Jul 12, 3:20 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBTeller25 min
Aug 8, 5:50 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBaca, Bent25 min
Aug 10, 4:48 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUAdams, Arapahoe27 min
Aug 10, 5:43 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent, Kiowa, Prowers32 min
Aug 12, 5:30 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBOUWashington30 min
Aug 12, 6:16 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma29 min
Oct 1, 4:00 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma30 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 27, 20177tornado warnings
  2. June 29, 20177tornado warnings
  3. June 12, 20175tornado warnings
  4. May 26, 20174tornado warnings
  5. June 25, 20173tornado warnings
  6. May 8, 20172tornado warnings
  7. May 25, 20172tornado warnings
  8. June 8, 20172tornado warnings
  9. August 10, 20172tornado warnings
  10. June 5, 20171tornado warnings
  11. June 22, 20171tornado warnings
  12. July 12, 20171tornado 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.