Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Colorado, 2021
8 tornado watches in 2021. 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest month
- May6 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 15, 20211 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 15, 5:07 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero, Prowers | 5 hr |
| May 22, 12:20 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Denver and 17 more | 8 hr |
| May 23, 12:06 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Crowley, Denver, Elbert and 11 more | 8 hr |
| May 24, 12:29 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Prowers | 9 hr |
| May 26, 3:42 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick and 2 more | 8 hr |
| May 29, 1:48 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 19, 5:25 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Yuma | 6 hr |
| Oct 12, 2:46 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baca, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Phillips, Prowers and 2 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cheyenne County6
- Kiowa County5
- Kit Carson County5
- Phillips County5
- Sedgwick County5
- Yuma County5
- Crowley County4
- Prowers County4
- Logan County4
- Washington County4
- Baca County3
- Bent County3
- Otero County3
- Elbert County3
- El Paso County3
- Lincoln County3
- Morgan County3
- Adams County2
- Arapahoe County2
- Denver County2
- Las Animas County2
- Pueblo County2
- Weld County2
- Douglas County1
- Huerfano 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.