Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Colorado, 2023
6 tornado watches in 2023. 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 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest month
- May2 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 10, 20231 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 10, 1:55 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Denver, Douglas, Elbert and 11 more | 7 hr |
| May 11, 11:22 AM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Yuma | 8 hr |
| Jun 21, 12:33 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Logan, Morgan, Washington, Weld | 7 hr |
| Jun 29, 1:17 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and 7 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 6, 7:18 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, El Paso, Kiowa and 3 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 13, 4:02 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Las Animas, Otero and 1 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cheyenne County3
- Kit Carson County3
- Logan County3
- Morgan County3
- Washington County3
- Weld County3
- Kiowa County3
- Adams County2
- Arapahoe County2
- Denver County2
- Douglas County2
- Elbert County2
- El Paso County2
- Lincoln County2
- Yuma County2
- Baca County2
- Bent County2
- Crowley County2
- Prowers County2
- Phillips County1
- Sedgwick County1
- Teller County1
- Boulder County1
- Broomfield County1
- Jefferson County1
- Larimer County1
- Las Animas County1
- Otero 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.