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Tornado Warnings in Colorado, 2018

68 tornado warnings in 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
68
Busiest month
July24 tornado warnings
Busiest day
June 19, 201812 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 21, 5:10 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUElbert25 min
May 27, 1:45 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUAdams, Weld30 min
May 27, 3:06 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUMorgan, Weld24 min
May 27, 4:28 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUMorgan17 min
May 27, 4:37 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUMorgan23 min
May 27, 4:58 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUMorgan, Weld18 min
May 27, 7:09 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson23 min
May 28, 5:04 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBOUWashington26 min
May 28, 5:07 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGLDKit Carson23 min
May 28, 5:11 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUMorgan34 min
May 28, 5:15 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWeld30 min
May 28, 5:23 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson37 min
May 28, 5:27 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULogan, Washington33 min
May 28, 5:36 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWeld24 min
May 28, 5:38 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWeld37 min
May 28, 5:47 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUMorgan, Weld28 min
May 28, 5:50 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson25 min
May 28, 6:04 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULogan26 min
May 28, 6:35 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUMorgan25 min
May 28, 6:37 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWeld23 min
Jun 17, 1:51 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUSedgwick24 min
Jun 17, 2:13 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUSedgwick17 min
Jun 17, 5:05 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWashington25 min
Jun 17, 5:29 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWashington20 min
Jun 17, 6:18 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma27 min
Jun 19, 1:14 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWeld31 min
Jun 19, 1:40 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWeld35 min
Jun 19, 2:20 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBOUAdams, Morgan, Weld25 min
Jun 19, 2:45 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUAdams, Morgan, Weld30 min
Jun 19, 2:57 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUArapahoe, Elbert33 min
Jun 19, 3:39 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUElbert36 min
Jun 19, 4:42 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULincoln18 min
Jun 19, 4:51 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUMorgan24 min
Jun 19, 4:57 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBOULincoln33 min
Jun 19, 5:22 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULincoln13 min
Jun 19, 5:30 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson15 min
Jun 19, 5:38 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma22 min
Jun 22, 4:08 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBProwers19 min
Jul 5, 1:33 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBOUPark27 min
Jul 23, 3:48 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBEl Paso, Teller27 min
Jul 23, 5:20 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBEl Paso, Pueblo25 min
Jul 26, 6:43 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWeld17 min
Jul 27, 3:26 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUMorgan, Weld34 min
Jul 27, 3:43 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWashington32 min
Jul 27, 3:59 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson13 min
Jul 27, 4:10 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUAdams, Arapahoe35 min
Jul 27, 4:28 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBOUArapahoe32 min
Jul 27, 4:35 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWashington25 min
Jul 27, 4:37 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson25 min
Jul 27, 4:57 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULincoln19 min
Jul 27, 7:46 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa, Prowers13 min
Jul 28, 6:54 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULogan22 min
Jul 29, 2:47 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWeld28 min
Jul 29, 3:32 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWeld43 min
Jul 29, 4:00 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWeld30 min
Jul 29, 4:10 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULogan, Morgan, Washington, Weld35 min
Jul 29, 4:26 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUMorgan, Weld34 min
Jul 29, 4:37 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULogan, Morgan, Washington23 min
Jul 29, 5:01 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUMorgan, Washington44 min
Jul 29, 5:32 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULincoln, Washington28 min
Jul 29, 5:40 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson35 min
Jul 29, 7:04 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUElbert, Lincoln26 min
Aug 6, 7:17 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBLas Animas28 min
Aug 6, 7:48 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUArapahoe, Elbert27 min
Aug 8, 6:27 AM MDTTornado WarningBOUWeld33 min
Aug 8, 6:57 AM MDTTornado WarningBOUWeld33 min
Aug 14, 8:01 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUArapahoe, Elbert29 min
Sep 19, 9:46 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson29 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. June 19, 201812tornado warnings
  2. May 28, 201811tornado warnings
  3. July 29, 201810tornado warnings
  4. July 27, 20189tornado warnings
  5. May 27, 20185tornado warnings
  6. June 17, 20184tornado warnings
  7. May 29, 20183tornado warnings
  8. July 23, 20182tornado warnings
  9. August 7, 20182tornado warnings
  10. August 8, 20182tornado warnings
  11. May 21, 20181tornado warnings
  12. June 18, 20181tornado 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.