Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Watches / 2016
Tornado Watches in Colorado, May 2016
5 tornado watches in May 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 May 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 7, 20161 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Kit Carson County4
- Yuma County4
- Cheyenne County3
- Washington County3
- Adams County2
- Arapahoe County2
- Elbert County2
- Lincoln County2
- Logan County2
- Morgan County2
- Phillips County2
- Sedgwick County2
- Weld County2
- Kiowa County2
- Prowers County2
- Baca County1
- Denver County1
- Bent County1
- Crowley County1
- El Paso County1
- Otero County1
- Pueblo 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.