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Tornado Watches in Colorado, 1997

15 tornado watches in 1997. 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 watches reaches back to 1997.

Tornado Watches by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1997. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
15
Busiest month
June9 tornado watches
Busiest day
May 6, 19971 tornado watches

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 6, 2:45 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCBaca5 hr
May 22, 4:30 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCBaca, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Prowers7 hr
Jun 1, 4:45 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Elbert, Kit Carson, Logan, Morgan and 5 more6 hr
Jun 2, 2:00 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Cheyenne, Denver, Douglas and 13 more6 hr
Jun 12, 12:30 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Broomfield, Cheyenne and 19 more6 hr
Jun 13, 2:00 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Broomfield, Cheyenne and 18 more6 hr
Jun 14, 3:15 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Cheyenne, Denver, Douglas and 13 more6 hr
Jun 18, 3:15 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Elbert, El Paso, Kit Carson and 8 more6 hr
Jun 19, 2:15 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCLogan, Phillips, Sedgwick7 hr
Jun 20, 2:30 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCLogan, Phillips, Sedgwick7 hr
Jun 25, 1:45 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Cheyenne, Denver, Douglas and 13 more6 hr
Jul 6, 3:15 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCBaca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson and 9 more6 hr
Aug 21, 6:00 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCPhillips, Sedgwick, Yuma6 hr
Oct 11, 5:00 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley and 14 more6 hr
Oct 11, 11:00 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCBaca, Bent, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Prowers and 1 more6 hr

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 6, 19971tornado watches
  2. May 22, 19971tornado watches
  3. June 1, 19971tornado watches
  4. June 2, 19971tornado watches
  5. June 12, 19971tornado watches
  6. June 13, 19971tornado watches
  7. June 14, 19971tornado watches
  8. June 18, 19971tornado watches
  9. June 19, 19971tornado watches
  10. June 20, 19971tornado watches
  11. June 25, 19971tornado watches
  12. July 6, 19971tornado watches

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.