Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Watches / 1999
Tornado Watches in Colorado, May 1999
4 tornado watches in May 1999. 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 1999. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- May 14, 19991 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 14, 3:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Kit Carson, Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Yuma | 6 hr |
| May 22, 2:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Cheyenne, Denver and 14 more | 7 hr |
| May 30, 3:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Elbert, Kit Carson, Logan, Morgan and 5 more | 6 hr |
| May 31, 3:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Broomfield, Cheyenne and 17 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Kit Carson County4
- Logan County4
- Washington County4
- Phillips County3
- Sedgwick County3
- Yuma County3
- Adams County3
- Arapahoe County3
- Elbert County3
- Morgan County3
- Weld County3
- Broomfield County2
- Cheyenne County2
- Denver County2
- Douglas County2
- El Paso County2
- Lincoln County2
- Boulder County1
- Jefferson County1
- Teller County1
- Baca County1
- Bent County1
- Crowley County1
- Kiowa County1
- Larimer County1
- Las Animas County1
- Otero County1
- Prowers County1
- Pueblo 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.