Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Watches / 2005
Tornado Watches in Colorado, May 2005
5 tornado watches in May 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 May 2005. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 24, 20052 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, 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Kit Carson County4
- Washington County4
- Yuma County4
- Prowers County3
- Elbert County3
- Logan County3
- Morgan County3
- Phillips County3
- Sedgwick County3
- Cheyenne County2
- Baca County2
- Bent County2
- Crowley County2
- Las Animas County2
- Otero County2
- Pueblo County2
- Adams County2
- Arapahoe County2
- Broomfield County2
- Denver County2
- Douglas County2
- Weld County2
- El Paso County1
- Huerfano County1
- Kiowa County1
- Lincoln 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.