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Tornado Warnings in Colorado, 2025

69 tornado warnings in 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
69
Busiest month
June26 tornado warnings
Busiest day
May 18, 202511 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 23, 6:39 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUElbert21 min
Apr 23, 6:55 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUElbert, Lincoln35 min
Apr 24, 2:56 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUElbert27 min
May 18, 1:12 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUArapahoe33 min
May 18, 1:33 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUAdams, Arapahoe27 min
May 18, 1:49 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUAdams26 min
May 18, 2:08 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUAdams, Morgan37 min
May 18, 2:56 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULogan, Weld34 min
May 18, 3:11 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUMorgan, Weld34 min
May 18, 4:10 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULogan35 min
May 18, 4:11 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULogan34 min
May 18, 4:13 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma32 min
May 18, 4:18 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson, Yuma27 min
May 18, 5:53 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma22 min
May 18, 6:26 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma34 min
May 23, 5:11 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBOULogan, Washington34 min
May 23, 5:37 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWashington23 min
May 23, 5:54 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBOUWashington36 min
May 23, 7:28 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne38 min
May 27, 4:46 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWeld29 min
Jun 2, 6:55 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULogan, Weld35 min
Jun 2, 7:23 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULogan22 min
Jun 2, 7:44 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULogan31 min
Jun 2, 8:09 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULogan21 min
Jun 4, 6:48 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBProwers27 min
Jun 5, 3:26 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWashington17 min
Jun 5, 6:22 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson23 min
Jun 5, 8:39 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBaca36 min
Jun 6, 3:38 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBEl Paso17 min
Jun 6, 3:52 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBaca, Las Animas23 min
Jun 6, 5:19 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson26 min
Jun 6, 5:27 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson33 min
Jun 6, 5:36 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBLas Animas, Otero, Pueblo24 min
Jun 6, 5:47 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson28 min
Jun 6, 5:57 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBLas Animas, Otero48 min
Jun 6, 6:13 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent, Kiowa32 min
Jun 13, 4:10 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUAdams20 min
Jun 13, 4:17 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWeld13 min
Jun 14, 6:15 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWeld30 min
Jun 14, 8:02 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBOUMorgan28 min
Jun 16, 4:51 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson24 min
Jun 16, 7:24 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWashington20 min
Jun 17, 12:45 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBEl Paso, Teller30 min
Jun 17, 4:09 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBLas Animas36 min
Jun 24, 1:58 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUArapahoe, Elbert18 min
Jun 24, 2:15 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUAdams, Arapahoe30 min
Jul 6, 3:52 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBOUMorgan12 min
Jul 7, 4:36 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGLDYuma24 min
Jul 12, 6:22 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBHuerfano23 min
Jul 16, 5:36 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUMorgan, Washington24 min
Jul 16, 5:55 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWashington35 min
Jul 16, 6:28 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWashington17 min
Jul 30, 3:09 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedPUBCuster, Saguache23 min
Aug 2, 6:25 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent, Kiowa, Prowers35 min
Aug 2, 7:38 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa, Prowers25 min
Aug 4, 6:58 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent, Las Animas32 min
Aug 4, 7:14 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent, Las Animas31 min
Aug 4, 7:44 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBLas Animas31 min
Aug 4, 8:14 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBLas Animas31 min
Aug 9, 4:27 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUElbert, Lincoln33 min
Aug 9, 5:26 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma49 min
Aug 9, 10:07 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent, Kiowa23 min
Aug 24, 5:36 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa24 min
Aug 24, 5:54 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa36 min
Sep 13, 1:12 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGJTMontezuma33 min
Sep 13, 1:41 PM MDTTornado WarningGJTDolores, San Miguel34 min
Sep 13, 1:43 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGJTDolores, Montezuma32 min
Sep 13, 2:09 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGJTDolores, Montezuma36 min
Oct 16, 4:40 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson24 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 18, 202511tornado warnings
  2. June 6, 20259tornado warnings
  3. June 3, 20254tornado warnings
  4. August 5, 20254tornado warnings
  5. September 13, 20254tornado warnings
  6. April 24, 20253tornado warnings
  7. May 23, 20253tornado warnings
  8. June 17, 20253tornado warnings
  9. June 5, 20252tornado warnings
  10. June 13, 20252tornado warnings
  11. June 15, 20252tornado warnings
  12. June 24, 20252tornado 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.