Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Colorado, 2009
11 tornado watches in 2009. 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 2009. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 11
- Busiest month
- June8 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- June 13, 20092 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 29, 2:47 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baca, Kiowa, Prowers | 7 hr |
| Jun 5, 2:48 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Kit Carson, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 11, 2:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Crowley, Elbert and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 13, 1:56 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and 10 more | 9 hr |
| Jun 13, 3:59 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson and 5 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 14, 1:50 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Cheyenne, Denver and 13 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 15, 2:34 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Denver, Douglas, Elbert and 9 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 17, 2:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and 12 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 26, 3:50 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Yuma | 7 hr |
| Jul 17, 12:59 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Elbert, Kit Carson, Lincoln and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 17, 2:53 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Las Animas, Otero and 1 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Morgan County8
- Washington County8
- Logan County7
- Yuma County7
- Kit Carson County6
- Phillips County6
- Sedgwick County6
- Weld County6
- Adams County6
- Arapahoe County6
- Elbert County6
- Lincoln County6
- Baca County4
- Kiowa County4
- Prowers County4
- Denver County4
- Douglas County4
- Cheyenne County4
- Bent County3
- Crowley County3
- Las Animas County3
- Otero County3
- Boulder County3
- Broomfield County3
- Jefferson County3
- Larimer County3
- El Paso County2
- Pueblo County2
- Huerfano 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.