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Tornado Warnings in Colorado, May 2023

43 tornado warnings in May 2023. 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 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
43
Busiest day
May 10, 202315 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 10, 2:15 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUDouglas, Jefferson, Park30 min
May 10, 2:19 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBTeller26 min
May 10, 2:52 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBTeller21 min
May 10, 2:56 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUDouglas, Jefferson34 min
May 10, 2:57 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUDouglas33 min
May 10, 3:10 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBEl Paso, Teller20 min
May 10, 3:30 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUDouglas, Jefferson15 min
May 10, 3:32 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUDouglas, Elbert28 min
May 10, 3:32 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUArapahoe, Douglas28 min
May 10, 3:57 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUArapahoe, Douglas, Elbert33 min
May 10, 3:59 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUAdams, Arapahoe, Denver31 min
May 10, 4:51 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUAdams, Arapahoe24 min
May 10, 5:04 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUAdams, Arapahoe26 min
May 10, 5:49 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUMorgan, Washington26 min
May 10, 5:52 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUMorgan23 min
May 10, 6:11 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUMorgan, Washington34 min
May 10, 6:14 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUMorgan31 min
May 10, 6:33 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULogan, Morgan27 min
May 10, 6:39 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWashington36 min
May 10, 6:55 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULogan, Weld35 min
May 11, 10:37 AM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne23 min
May 11, 11:56 AM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma16 min
May 11, 12:38 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma22 min
May 11, 2:09 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUPhillips, Sedgwick21 min
May 11, 4:41 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne19 min
May 11, 4:53 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGLDCheyenne21 min
May 11, 4:57 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGLDCheyenne21 min
May 24, 5:16 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBCrowley, Pueblo29 min
May 24, 5:18 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBCrowley, Pueblo15 min
May 24, 6:27 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULincoln33 min
May 26, 4:02 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWeld28 min
May 26, 4:24 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWeld9 min
May 26, 4:49 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUMorgan26 min
May 26, 7:06 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBOUWashington24 min
May 27, 4:48 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent27 min
May 27, 5:29 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent, Kiowa31 min
May 27, 5:59 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent, Kiowa31 min
May 27, 6:29 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent, Kiowa, Prowers31 min
May 30, 3:58 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedPUBProwers17 min
May 30, 4:12 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedPUBKiowa, Prowers22 min
May 30, 5:10 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBProwers35 min
May 31, 2:26 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent, Kiowa34 min
May 31, 3:29 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa18 min

By county

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

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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.