Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Colorado, 2003
9 tornado watches in 2003. 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 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 9
- Busiest month
- May5 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 15, 20033 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 3, 4:10 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick | 5 hr |
| May 8, 12:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Kit Carson, Lincoln, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick and 2 more | 6 hr |
| May 15, 12:55 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero, Prowers | 6 hr |
| May 15, 3:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Elbert, Kit Carson, Lincoln and 1 more | 5 hr |
| May 15, 5:50 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baca | 5 hr |
| Jun 4, 2:20 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Las Animas, Otero, Prowers and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 20, 12:45 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley and 18 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 23, 8:10 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick | 4 hr |
| Jul 21, 3:50 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Phillips, Sedgwick, Yuma | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Phillips County5
- Sedgwick County5
- Logan County4
- Baca County4
- Kit Carson County3
- Lincoln County3
- Morgan County3
- Washington County3
- Yuma County3
- Bent County3
- Crowley County3
- Otero County3
- Prowers County3
- Kiowa County2
- Adams County2
- Arapahoe County2
- Cheyenne County2
- Elbert County2
- Las Animas County2
- Pueblo County2
- Denver County1
- Douglas County1
- El Paso County1
- Weld 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.