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Tornado Watches in Colorado, 2015

15 tornado watches in 2015. 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 2015. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
15
Busiest month
May6 tornado watches
Busiest day
June 5, 20153 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 17, 4:37 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Kit Carson, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick and 2 more7 hr
Apr 18, 2:08 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Kit Carson, Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington and 1 more6 hr
May 8, 2:00 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCBent, Crowley, El Paso, Huerfano, Las Animas, Otero and 2 more7 hr
May 9, 11:55 AM MDTTornado WatchSPCBaca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso and 12 more11 hr
May 15, 12:58 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCLogan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Weld and 1 more7 hr
May 23, 12:54 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Boulder, Broomfield and 23 more6 hr
May 24, 4:00 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCBaca, Bent, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Prowers and 1 more10 hr
May 27, 1:26 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCKit Carson, Yuma7 hr
Jun 3, 2:03 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and 6 more7 hr
Jun 4, 2:20 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and 6 more8 hr
Jun 4, 6:06 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCKit Carson, Yuma5 hr
Jun 5, 1:09 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Boulder, Broomfield and 18 more6 hr
Jun 5, 4:44 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Kit Carson, Phillips, Sedgwick, Yuma7 hr
Aug 17, 2:32 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Boulder, Broomfield and 20 more7 hr
Nov 16, 12:00 PM MSTTornado WatchSPCBaca, Prowers8 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. June 5, 20153tornado watches
  2. April 17, 20151tornado watches
  3. April 18, 20151tornado watches
  4. May 8, 20151tornado watches
  5. May 9, 20151tornado watches
  6. May 15, 20151tornado watches
  7. May 23, 20151tornado watches
  8. May 24, 20151tornado watches
  9. May 27, 20151tornado watches
  10. June 3, 20151tornado watches
  11. June 4, 20151tornado watches
  12. August 17, 20151tornado watches

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.