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Tornado Warnings in Colorado, 2021

81 tornado warnings in 2021. 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
81
Busiest month
May50 tornado warnings
Busiest day
May 22, 202114 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 27, 3:41 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULincoln34 min
Apr 27, 4:01 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa14 min
Apr 27, 4:06 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne24 min
Apr 27, 4:15 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa15 min
Apr 27, 4:31 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGLDCheyenne29 min
Apr 27, 4:36 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULincoln24 min
Apr 27, 4:40 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson35 min
Apr 27, 4:47 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson, Yuma43 min
May 2, 4:25 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedPUBBent, Prowers35 min
May 2, 5:24 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBProwers51 min
May 14, 7:23 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent37 min
May 14, 7:39 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent33 min
May 15, 7:01 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent17 min
May 16, 4:13 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBCrowley32 min
May 16, 4:51 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULincoln24 min
May 16, 4:59 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBCrowley46 min
May 16, 5:21 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne24 min
May 16, 5:33 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa42 min
May 16, 6:56 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson18 min
May 16, 7:10 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson35 min
May 21, 9:57 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma33 min
May 22, 1:28 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBOUMorgan17 min
May 22, 1:45 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUMorgan15 min
May 22, 1:54 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBOUMorgan, Washington36 min
May 22, 2:05 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUAdams, Arapahoe25 min
May 22, 2:43 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULogan17 min
May 22, 2:49 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBCrowley26 min
May 22, 3:01 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULogan29 min
May 22, 3:09 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBCrowley21 min
May 22, 3:16 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULincoln29 min
May 22, 3:48 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUElbert, Lincoln27 min
May 22, 4:13 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBOUElbert, Lincoln32 min
May 22, 4:42 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBOUElbert, Lincoln33 min
May 22, 5:16 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUElbert, Lincoln29 min
May 22, 6:06 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWashington24 min
May 23, 12:26 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBEl Paso, Pueblo34 min
May 23, 12:40 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUElbert, Lincoln19 min
May 23, 1:47 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUArapahoe, Elbert, Lincoln, Washington28 min
May 23, 2:13 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWashington32 min
May 23, 2:55 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWashington20 min
May 23, 3:11 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULogan, Washington34 min
May 23, 3:42 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULogan33 min
May 23, 4:10 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatBOULogan20 min
May 23, 4:27 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULogan23 min
May 23, 4:43 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWashington17 min
May 23, 4:58 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWashington17 min
May 23, 5:21 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson24 min
May 23, 5:31 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWashington14 min
May 23, 6:01 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma29 min
May 29, 6:11 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBaca, Las Animas34 min
May 29, 6:38 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatPUBBaca, Las Animas22 min
May 29, 6:54 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatPUBBaca, Las Animas36 min
May 30, 2:23 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBLas Animas21 min
May 30, 2:43 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBLas Animas32 min
May 30, 2:54 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedPUBBaca, Las Animas36 min
May 30, 3:25 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatPUBBaca, Las Animas35 min
May 30, 3:57 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedPUBBaca, Las Animas21 min
May 30, 4:12 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBEl Paso21 min
Jun 7, 5:07 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWeld23 min
Jun 7, 5:24 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBOUWeld36 min
Jun 12, 6:25 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBLas Animas35 min
Jun 12, 6:59 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBLas Animas6 min
Jun 19, 2:09 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBOUAdams36 min
Jun 19, 2:40 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUMorgan35 min
Jun 19, 2:52 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUAdams23 min
Jun 19, 2:54 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUElbert21 min
Jun 19, 4:12 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWashington33 min
Jun 19, 4:15 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULogan30 min
Jun 24, 4:31 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBProwers32 min
Jun 24, 6:48 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBProwers25 min
Jul 1, 4:44 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBCrowley, Pueblo23 min
Jul 9, 8:56 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson21 min
Aug 19, 2:39 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUAdams, Broomfield, Jefferson36 min
Aug 19, 3:05 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUAdams, Weld25 min
Aug 19, 3:12 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUDouglas18 min
Aug 19, 3:46 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUDouglas, Elbert14 min
Aug 19, 4:34 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUPhillips26 min
Aug 19, 4:57 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUPhillips33 min
Aug 19, 7:36 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma24 min
Aug 19, 8:08 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma22 min
Oct 12, 5:54 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUPhillips36 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 22, 202114tornado warnings
  2. May 23, 202114tornado warnings
  3. May 30, 20219tornado warnings
  4. April 27, 20218tornado warnings
  5. May 16, 20216tornado warnings
  6. June 19, 20216tornado warnings
  7. August 19, 20216tornado warnings
  8. May 2, 20212tornado warnings
  9. May 15, 20212tornado warnings
  10. May 17, 20212tornado warnings
  11. June 7, 20212tornado warnings
  12. June 13, 20212tornado 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.