Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Watches / 2015
Tornado Watches in Colorado, May 2015
6 tornado watches in May 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 May 2015. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- May 8, 20151 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 8, 2:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bent, Crowley, El Paso, Huerfano, Las Animas, Otero and 2 more | 7 hr |
| May 9, 11:55 AM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso and 12 more | 11 hr |
| May 15, 12:58 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Weld and 1 more | 7 hr |
| May 23, 12:54 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Boulder, Broomfield and 23 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 4:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Prowers and 1 more | 10 hr |
| May 27, 1:26 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.
- Yuma County5
- Bent County4
- Kit Carson County4
- Crowley County3
- El Paso County3
- Otero County3
- Pueblo County3
- Baca County3
- Cheyenne County3
- Kiowa County3
- Logan County3
- Morgan County3
- Phillips County3
- Prowers County3
- Sedgwick County3
- Washington County3
- Las Animas County2
- Teller County2
- Elbert County2
- Lincoln County2
- Weld County2
- Huerfano County1
- Adams County1
- Arapahoe County1
- Boulder County1
- Broomfield County1
- Denver County1
- Douglas County1
- Jefferson County1
- Larimer 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.