Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Colorado, 2016
8 tornado watches in 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest month
- May5 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 15, 20161 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 15, 1:57 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Kiowa, Prowers | 7 hr |
| May 7, 12:31 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Elbert, Kit Carson, Lincoln and 7 more | 8 hr |
| May 21, 2:07 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baca, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Prowers, Yuma | 8 hr |
| May 24, 12:45 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Logan, Morgan, Phillips and 3 more | 7 hr |
| May 24, 6:09 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Kit Carson, Yuma | 6 hr |
| May 26, 12:04 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso, Kiowa and 7 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 13, 1:27 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley and 17 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 27, 1:22 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boulder, Larimer, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick and 2 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Kit Carson County5
- Washington County5
- Yuma County5
- Kiowa County4
- Prowers County4
- Cheyenne County4
- Logan County4
- Morgan County4
- Phillips County4
- Sedgwick County4
- Weld County4
- Baca County3
- Bent County3
- Adams County3
- Arapahoe County3
- Elbert County3
- Lincoln County3
- Crowley County2
- El Paso County2
- Otero County2
- Pueblo County2
- Denver County1
- Huerfano County1
- Las Animas County1
- Boulder County1
- Larimer 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. Rebuilt daily.