Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Watches / 1998
Tornado Watches in Colorado, May 1998
6 tornado watches in May 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 May 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- May 8, 19981 tornado watches
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.
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Baca County4
- Bent County4
- Crowley County4
- Kiowa County4
- Otero County4
- Prowers County4
- Cheyenne County3
- Las Animas County3
- Lincoln County3
- Logan County3
- Adams County2
- Arapahoe County2
- Elbert County2
- El Paso County2
- Kit Carson County2
- Pueblo County2
- Morgan County2
- Phillips County2
- Sedgwick County2
- Washington County2
- Weld County2
- Yuma County2
- Denver County1
- Douglas County1
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.