Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Colorado, 2000
6 tornado watches in 2000. 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 2000. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest month
- July4 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- July 20, 20002 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 7, 2:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick | 6 hr |
| Jun 27, 2:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Bent, Crowley, Denver, Elbert and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 20, 1:45 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Boulder, Broomfield and 22 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 20, 4:45 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Phillips, Sedgwick, Yuma | 6 hr |
| Jul 21, 2:15 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Weld, Yuma | 7 hr |
| Jul 21, 4:15 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lincoln and 1 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Logan County4
- Phillips County3
- Sedgwick County3
- Bent County3
- Kiowa County3
- Lincoln County3
- Morgan County3
- Weld County3
- Adams County2
- Arapahoe County2
- Crowley County2
- Denver County2
- Elbert County2
- El Paso County2
- Las Animas County2
- Otero County2
- Pueblo County2
- Washington County2
- Baca County2
- Cheyenne County2
- Kit Carson County2
- Prowers County2
- Yuma County2
- Boulder County1
- Broomfield County1
- Douglas County1
- Gilpin County1
- Huerfano County1
- Jefferson County1
- Larimer County1
- Teller County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive19992001
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.