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Tornado Warnings in Colorado, May 2021

50 tornado warnings in May 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 May 2021. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings: 50
Busiest day: May 22, 202114 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 2, 4:25 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	PUB	Bent, Prowers	35 min
May 2, 5:24 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Prowers	51 min
May 14, 7:23 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent	37 min
May 14, 7:39 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent	33 min
May 15, 7:01 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent	17 min
May 16, 4:13 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Crowley	32 min
May 16, 4:51 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Lincoln	24 min
May 16, 4:59 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Crowley	46 min
May 16, 5:21 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	24 min
May 16, 5:33 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Kiowa	42 min
May 16, 6:56 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	18 min
May 16, 7:10 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	35 min
May 21, 9:57 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Yuma	33 min
May 22, 1:28 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	BOU	Morgan	17 min
May 22, 1:45 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Morgan	15 min
May 22, 1:54 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	BOU	Morgan, Washington	36 min
May 22, 2:05 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Adams, Arapahoe	25 min
May 22, 2:43 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Logan	17 min
May 22, 2:49 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Crowley	26 min
May 22, 3:01 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Logan	29 min
May 22, 3:09 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Crowley	21 min
May 22, 3:16 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Lincoln	29 min
May 22, 3:48 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Elbert, Lincoln	27 min
May 22, 4:13 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	BOU	Elbert, Lincoln	32 min
May 22, 4:42 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	BOU	Elbert, Lincoln	33 min
May 22, 5:16 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Elbert, Lincoln	29 min
May 22, 6:06 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Washington	24 min
May 23, 12:26 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	El Paso, Pueblo	34 min
May 23, 12:40 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Elbert, Lincoln	19 min
May 23, 1:47 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Arapahoe, Elbert, Lincoln, Washington	28 min
May 23, 2:13 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Washington	32 min
May 23, 2:55 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Washington	20 min
May 23, 3:11 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Logan, Washington	34 min
May 23, 3:42 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Logan	33 min
May 23, 4:10 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	BOU	Logan	20 min
May 23, 4:27 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Logan	23 min
May 23, 4:43 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Washington	17 min
May 23, 4:58 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Washington	17 min
May 23, 5:21 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	24 min
May 23, 5:31 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Washington	14 min
May 23, 6:01 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Yuma	29 min
May 29, 6:11 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	34 min
May 29, 6:38 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	22 min
May 29, 6:54 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	36 min
May 30, 2:23 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Las Animas	21 min
May 30, 2:43 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Las Animas	32 min
May 30, 2:54 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	36 min
May 30, 3:25 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	35 min
May 30, 3:57 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	21 min
May 30, 4:12 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	El Paso	21 min

By county

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

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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.