Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Colorado, 2001
4 tornado watches in 2001. 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 2001. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest month
- May2 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 28, 20011 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 28, 5:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bent, Costilla, Crowley, Custer, El Paso, Fremont and 6 more | 5 hr |
| May 29, 3:45 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Prowers | 6 hr |
| Jun 7, 2:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Cheyenne, Crowley, Denver and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 20, 3:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert and 6 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bent County3
- Crowley County3
- Lincoln County3
- Cheyenne County3
- Kiowa County3
- Kit Carson County3
- El Paso County2
- Las Animas County2
- Otero County2
- Pueblo County2
- Baca County2
- Prowers County2
- Arapahoe County2
- Elbert County2
- Costilla County1
- Custer County1
- Fremont County1
- Huerfano County1
- Teller County1
- Adams County1
- Broomfield County1
- Denver County1
- Douglas County1
- Larimer County1
- Logan County1
- Morgan County1
- Washington County1
- Weld County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive20002002
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.