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Tornado Watches in Colorado, 2019
10 tornado watches in 2019. 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 2019. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 10
- Busiest month
- May5 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 26, 20192 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 3:47 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Las Animas, Otero, Prowers | 5 hr |
| May 17, 1:59 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Yuma | 9 hr |
| May 26, 12:27 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson and 4 more | 9 hr |
| May 26, 3:46 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Elbert, Lincoln, Morgan and 2 more | 4 hr |
| May 27, 12:56 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Logan, Morgan, Phillips and 3 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 20, 4:04 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 4, 3:01 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Cheyenne, Denver and 14 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 11, 2:46 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 7 hr |
| Aug 13, 11:49 AM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 24, 4:26 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Yuma County6
- Cheyenne County6
- Kit Carson County6
- Washington County5
- Lincoln County4
- Logan County4
- Phillips County4
- Sedgwick County4
- Adams County3
- Arapahoe County3
- Denver County3
- Morgan County3
- Weld County3
- Baca County2
- Bent County2
- Las Animas County2
- Otero County2
- Prowers County2
- Elbert County2
- Crowley County1
- Kiowa County1
- Boulder County1
- Broomfield County1
- Douglas County1
- El Paso County1
- Jefferson 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.