Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Colorado, 2002
3 tornado watches in 2002. 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 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest month
- June2 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- June 3, 20021 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 2:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Boulder, Broomfield and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 20, 2:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Bent, Boulder, Broomfield, Crowley and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 24, 1:15 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Adams County2
- Arapahoe County2
- Bent County2
- Boulder County2
- Broomfield County2
- Crowley County2
- Denver County2
- Douglas County2
- Elbert County2
- El Paso County2
- Jefferson County2
- Larimer County2
- Las Animas County2
- Lincoln County2
- Logan County2
- Morgan County2
- Otero County2
- Pueblo County2
- Weld County2
- Baca County1
- Cheyenne County1
- Kiowa County1
- Kit Carson County1
- Prowers County1
- Washington County1
- Phillips County1
- Sedgwick 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. Rebuilt daily.