Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Colorado, 2005
11 tornado watches in 2005. 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 2005. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 11
- Busiest month
- June6 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 24, 20052 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 11, 2:10 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Prowers, Washington, Yuma | 7 hr |
| May 23, 2:20 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso and 14 more | 8 hr |
| May 24, 12:45 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, Elbert and 8 more | 7 hr |
| May 24, 1:10 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, Elbert and 8 more | 7 hr |
| May 30, 1:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Las Animas, Otero, Prowers and 1 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 2, 12:45 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Cheyenne, Denver, Douglas and 13 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 2, 7:35 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso, Kiowa, Kit Carson and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 12:25 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Phillips, Sedgwick | 7 hr |
| Jun 6, 2:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Phillips, Sedgwick, Yuma | 8 hr |
| Jun 12, 1:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Logan, Morgan and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 16, 4:15 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Kit Carson County8
- Yuma County8
- Phillips County7
- Sedgwick County7
- Cheyenne County6
- Washington County6
- Elbert County5
- Logan County5
- Morgan County5
- Lincoln County4
- Prowers County3
- Crowley County3
- El Paso County3
- Kiowa County3
- Pueblo County3
- Adams County3
- Arapahoe County3
- Broomfield County3
- Denver County3
- Douglas County3
- Weld County3
- Baca County2
- Bent County2
- Las Animas County2
- Otero County2
- Huerfano County1
- Jefferson County1
- Teller 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.