Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Watches / 2019
Tornado Watches in Colorado, May 2019
5 tornado watches in May 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 May 2019. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 26, 20192 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, 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Baca County2
- Bent County2
- Las Animas County2
- Otero County2
- Prowers County2
- Yuma County2
- Adams County2
- Arapahoe County2
- Denver County2
- Morgan County2
- Washington County2
- Weld County2
- Cheyenne County1
- Crowley County1
- Kiowa County1
- Kit Carson County1
- Elbert County1
- Lincoln County1
- Logan County1
- Phillips County1
- Sedgwick 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.