Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Colorado, 2025
6 tornado watches in 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest month
- May2 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 27, 20251 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 3:56 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Sedgwick | 9 hr |
| May 18, 1:57 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Kit Carson, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington and 2 more | 6 hr |
| May 28, 1:15 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Prowers and 1 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 5, 1:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Kiowa, Prowers | 7 hr |
| Jun 6, 1:49 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Douglas and 13 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 1, 2:46 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Weld | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Sedgwick County3
- Kit Carson County3
- Washington County3
- Baca County3
- Bent County3
- Kiowa County3
- Prowers County3
- Logan County2
- Morgan County2
- Phillips County2
- Weld County2
- Yuma County2
- Cheyenne County2
- Arapahoe County1
- Crowley County1
- Douglas County1
- Elbert County1
- El Paso County1
- Fremont County1
- Huerfano County1
- Las Animas County1
- Lincoln County1
- Otero County1
- Pueblo County1
- Teller 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.