Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Watches / 2010
Tornado Watches in Colorado, May 2010
6 tornado watches in May 2010. 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 2010. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- May 10, 20101 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 10, 11:36 AM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Kit Carson | 6 hr |
| May 18, 12:41 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley and 17 more | 10 hr |
| May 21, 2:26 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Larimer, Logan, Morgan, Weld | 8 hr |
| May 23, 3:53 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Prowers and 1 more | 7 hr |
| May 24, 10:46 AM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Logan and 5 more | 10 hr |
| May 26, 1:49 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and 8 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Kit Carson County4
- Logan County4
- Baca County3
- Bent County3
- Cheyenne County3
- Kiowa County3
- Morgan County3
- Prowers County3
- Washington County3
- Weld County3
- Yuma County3
- Adams County2
- Arapahoe County2
- Denver County2
- Douglas County2
- Elbert County2
- Lincoln County2
- Larimer County2
- Crowley County1
- El Paso County1
- Huerfano County1
- Las Animas County1
- Otero County1
- Pueblo County1
- Phillips County1
- Sedgwick County1
- Boulder County1
- Broomfield County1
- Jefferson 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.