Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Colorado, 2008
8 tornado watches in 2008. 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 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest month
- May5 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 23, 20082 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 1:25 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Logan and 5 more | 8 hr |
| May 22, 11:25 AM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Cheyenne, Denver and 14 more | 9 hr |
| May 23, 12:41 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Larimer, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 1:15 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Kit Carson, Yuma | 7 hr |
| May 23, 6:07 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Weld | 5 hr |
| May 29, 12:33 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Yuma | 7 hr |
| Jun 4, 12:42 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Douglas, Elbert, Kit Carson and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 4, 7:49 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Kit Carson, Yuma | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Logan County6
- Phillips County6
- Sedgwick County6
- Washington County6
- Yuma County6
- Kit Carson County5
- Morgan County4
- Weld County4
- Cheyenne County2
- Kiowa County2
- Adams County2
- Arapahoe County2
- Denver County2
- Douglas County2
- Elbert County2
- Larimer County2
- Lincoln County2
- Baca County1
- Bent County1
- Prowers County1
- Boulder County1
- Broomfield County1
- Jefferson 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.