Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Watches / 2008
Tornado Watches in Colorado, May 2008
5 tornado watches in May 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 May 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 23, 20082 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Logan County4
- Phillips County4
- Sedgwick County4
- Washington County4
- Morgan County3
- Weld County3
- Yuma County3
- Kit Carson County2
- Larimer County2
- Adams County1
- Arapahoe County1
- Boulder County1
- Broomfield County1
- Cheyenne County1
- Denver County1
- Douglas County1
- Elbert County1
- Jefferson 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.