Alert archive / Colorado / Winter Storm Watches / 2017
Winter Storm Watches in Colorado, May 2017
4 winter storm watches in May 2017. 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 winter storm watches reaches back to 2005.
Winter Storm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Winter Storm Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- May 16, 20172 winter storm 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 16, 3:30 PM MDT | Winter Storm Watch | PUB | Chaffee, Conejos, El Paso, Fremont, Lake, Mineral and 3 more | 24 hr |
| May 16, 4:27 PM MDT | Winter Storm Watch | BOU | Boulder, Clear Creek, Douglas, Gilpin, Grand, Jackson and 4 more | 19 hr |
| May 17, 11:40 AM MDT | Winter Storm Watch | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and 4 more | 23 hr |
| May 18, 5:23 AM MDT | Winter Storm Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Chaffee, Costilla, Custer, El Paso, Fremont and 4 more | 10 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Chaffee County2
- El Paso County2
- Fremont County2
- Saguache County2
- Boulder County2
- Douglas County2
- Jefferson County2
- Larimer County2
- Conejos County1
- Lake County1
- Mineral County1
- Rio Grande County1
- Teller County1
- Clear Creek County1
- Gilpin County1
- Grand County1
- Jackson County1
- Park County1
- Summit County1
- Adams County1
- Arapahoe County1
- Broomfield County1
- Denver County1
- Elbert County1
- Weld County1
- Alamosa County1
- Costilla County1
- Custer County1
- Huerfano County1
- Las Animas County1
- Pueblo County1
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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.