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Tornado Watches in Colorado, 1998
9 tornado watches in 1998. 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 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 9
- Busiest month
- May6 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 8, 19981 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 2:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley and 11 more | 6 hr |
| May 19, 3:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Weld and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 21, 2:15 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick | 6 hr |
| May 24, 1:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Lincoln and 2 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 7:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Las Animas, Otero and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 2:45 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley and 14 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 7, 2:15 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Huerfano, Las Animas, Otero, Prowers and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 7, 6:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Phillips, Yuma | 6 hr |
| Jun 13, 2:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Sedgwick | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Baca County5
- Bent County5
- Kiowa County5
- Otero County5
- Prowers County5
- Cheyenne County4
- Crowley County4
- Las Animas County4
- Kit Carson County3
- Lincoln County3
- Pueblo County3
- Logan County3
- Phillips County3
- Sedgwick County3
- Yuma County3
- Adams County2
- Arapahoe County2
- Elbert County2
- El Paso County2
- Morgan County2
- Washington County2
- Weld County2
- Denver County1
- Douglas County1
- Huerfano County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.