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Tornado Warnings in Colorado, 2022

48 tornado warnings in 2022. 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 2022. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
48
Busiest month
June21 tornado warnings
Busiest day
June 8, 20228 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 1, 6:00 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent, Prowers30 min
May 1, 6:27 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBProwers24 min
Jun 3, 5:15 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent45 min
Jun 3, 5:23 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa37 min
Jun 3, 5:39 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne36 min
Jun 3, 5:56 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent, Kiowa, Prowers49 min
Jun 3, 6:09 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne36 min
Jun 3, 6:56 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma34 min
Jun 3, 7:17 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma28 min
Jun 3, 7:29 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma16 min
Jun 5, 4:42 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa, Prowers33 min
Jun 7, 5:14 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUPhillips, Sedgwick31 min
Jun 7, 5:34 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent, Kiowa41 min
Jun 7, 5:56 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent, Prowers34 min
Jun 7, 6:18 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent, Kiowa27 min
Jun 7, 6:41 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedPUBBent49 min
Jun 7, 6:43 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBProwers32 min
Jun 7, 7:07 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedPUBProwers68 min
Jun 7, 7:12 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent33 min
Jun 7, 7:23 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBProwers56 min
Jun 7, 7:54 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBaca66 min
Jun 7, 8:37 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBaca, Prowers53 min
Jun 12, 2:17 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBOUAdams, Denver22 min
Jul 5, 3:57 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBOULogan33 min
Jul 6, 2:54 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUArapahoe, Elbert36 min
Jul 6, 3:42 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULincoln33 min
Jul 6, 3:56 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUMorgan34 min
Jul 6, 4:10 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUElbert20 min
Jul 6, 4:29 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUMorgan16 min
Jul 6, 4:44 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUMorgan31 min
Jul 6, 4:57 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUMorgan18 min
Jul 6, 6:14 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWashington31 min
Jul 6, 6:44 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWashington31 min
Jul 6, 6:58 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWashington19 min
Jul 6, 7:52 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma23 min
Jul 6, 8:42 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent, Otero18 min
Jul 24, 8:58 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne32 min
Jul 26, 4:03 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson27 min
Jul 26, 4:26 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson21 min
Jul 26, 4:31 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson44 min
Jul 26, 4:38 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGLDKit Carson22 min
Jul 26, 4:58 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson31 min
Jul 26, 5:35 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson40 min
Jul 29, 4:30 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBOUAdams, Arapahoe15 min
Aug 5, 3:49 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUAdams, Denver10 min
Aug 7, 2:02 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBCrowley38 min
Aug 7, 4:24 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent, Prowers30 min
Aug 7, 4:33 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent, Prowers42 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 8, 20228tornado warnings
  2. July 6, 20227tornado warnings
  3. July 26, 20226tornado warnings
  4. July 7, 20225tornado warnings
  5. June 3, 20224tornado warnings
  6. June 4, 20224tornado warnings
  7. June 7, 20223tornado warnings
  8. August 7, 20223tornado warnings
  9. May 2, 20222tornado warnings
  10. June 5, 20221tornado warnings
  11. June 12, 20221tornado warnings
  12. July 5, 20221tornado 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.