Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Watches / 2004
Tornado Watches in Colorado, May 2004
3 tornado watches in May 2004. 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 2004. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- May 11, 20041 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 11, 1:40 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baca, Prowers | 6 hr |
| May 20, 6:15 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and 9 more | 5 hr |
| May 22, 1:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Elbert, Kit Carson, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick and 2 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Elbert County2
- Logan County2
- Morgan County2
- Washington County2
- Baca County1
- Prowers County1
- Adams County1
- Arapahoe County1
- Boulder County1
- Broomfield County1
- Denver County1
- Douglas County1
- El Paso County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lincoln County1
- Teller County1
- Weld County1
- Kit Carson County1
- Phillips County1
- Sedgwick County1
- Yuma 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.