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Tornado Warnings in Colorado, 2020

33 tornado warnings in 2020. 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
33
Busiest month
July20 tornado warnings
Busiest day
July 15, 20208 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 19, 6:53 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedPUBCrowley, Kiowa22 min
May 19, 8:05 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero25 min
May 19, 8:40 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedPUBCrowley, Kiowa, Otero22 min
May 21, 3:48 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedPUBProwers27 min
May 21, 4:18 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBProwers27 min
May 21, 4:32 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedPUBProwers13 min
Jun 2, 1:26 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson49 min
Jun 26, 4:13 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBEl Paso32 min
Jun 26, 4:59 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBEl Paso31 min
Jul 2, 4:19 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson26 min
Jul 2, 4:36 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGLDKit Carson17 min
Jul 3, 6:32 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULincoln28 min
Jul 3, 11:36 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne24 min
Jul 8, 6:17 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBOUPhillips, Sedgwick28 min
Jul 12, 5:53 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGLDCheyenne23 min
Jul 12, 7:57 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa, Prowers19 min
Jul 14, 5:22 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBCrowley, El Paso, Pueblo23 min
Jul 14, 5:34 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBCrowley26 min
Jul 14, 5:56 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBCrowley34 min
Jul 14, 6:12 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero33 min
Jul 14, 6:13 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBCrowley, Otero32 min
Jul 14, 6:37 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero23 min
Jul 14, 6:59 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent31 min
Jul 14, 7:14 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent31 min
Jul 14, 7:27 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent, Prowers33 min
Jul 14, 8:01 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBProwers17 min
Jul 15, 4:13 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBEl Paso, Pueblo32 min
Jul 19, 6:05 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULogan, Sedgwick25 min
Jul 19, 6:14 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUPhillips31 min
Aug 14, 4:08 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedPUBKiowa, Prowers25 min
Aug 14, 4:32 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBProwers28 min
Aug 15, 6:03 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWashington27 min
Aug 16, 6:43 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBOtero20 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. July 15, 20208tornado warnings
  2. May 20, 20203tornado warnings
  3. May 21, 20203tornado warnings
  4. July 14, 20203tornado warnings
  5. June 26, 20202tornado warnings
  6. July 2, 20202tornado warnings
  7. July 4, 20202tornado warnings
  8. July 20, 20202tornado warnings
  9. August 14, 20202tornado warnings
  10. June 2, 20201tornado warnings
  11. July 9, 20201tornado warnings
  12. July 12, 20201tornado warnings

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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.