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Tornado Watch 288
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 8, 2026, 2:32 PM MDT for 12 counties in Colorado; Cheyenne County, Sherman County, Wallace County, Kansas; Dundy County, Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 2026, 2:32 PM MDT (20:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2026, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 4 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
Counties Adams County, CO, Arapahoe County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Denver County, CO, Douglas County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Washington County, CO, Weld County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Dundy County, NE
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 50%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 60%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 60%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
37 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 3:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Denver, Jefferson | 46 min |
| Jun 8, 3:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert | 44 min |
| Jun 8, 3:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 41 min |
| Jun 8, 3:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Denver | 23 min |
| Jun 8, 3:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Denver | 39 min |
| Jun 8, 3:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 49 min |
| Jun 8, 3:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert | 48 min |
| Jun 8, 4:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Broomfield, Weld | 32 min |
| Jun 8, 4:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 78 min |
| Jun 8, 4:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 46 min |
| Jun 8, 4:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 25 min |
| Jun 8, 4:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Denver, Morgan, Weld | 41 min |
| Jun 8, 4:29 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert | 46 min |
| Jun 8, 4:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 18 min |
| Jun 8, 4:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Elbert | 42 min |
| Jun 8, 4:52 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams | 38 min |
| Jun 8, 4:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Morgan, Weld | 30 min |
| Jun 8, 5:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 59 min |
| Jun 8, 5:11 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert | 49 min |
| Jun 8, 5:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Elbert | 46 min |
| Jun 8, 5:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Morgan | 32 min |
| Jun 8, 5:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 41 min |
| Jun 8, 5:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln, Washington | 50 min |
| Jun 8, 5:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Morgan, Washington | 30 min |
| Jun 8, 5:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 48 min |
| Jun 8, 5:58 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 35 min |
| Jun 8, 6:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Logan, Morgan, Washington | 51 min |
| Jun 8, 6:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Elbert | 43 min |
| Jun 8, 6:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln, Washington | 48 min |
| Jun 8, 6:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 85 min |
| Jun 8, 6:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 67 min |
| Jun 8, 7:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 45 min |
| Jun 8, 7:25 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 20 min |
| Jun 8, 7:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 54 min |
| Jun 8, 7:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 29 min |
| Jun 8, 7:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 71 min |
| Jun 8, 8:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln, Washington | 30 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 1:29 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Douglas, Elbert, Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Jun 8, 5:14 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Elbert, Kit Carson, Lincoln and 3 more | 91 min |
| Jun 7, 11:33 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery | 117 min |
| Jun 7, 11:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Crawford | 9 hr |
| Jun 8, 3:23 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Labette | 2 hr |
| Jun 8, 6:09 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Labette | 2 hr |
| Jun 8, 12:49 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Norton, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 3 hr |
| Jun 8, 2:10 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Decatur, Ellis, Ellsworth, Graham, Jewell and 13 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 8, 2:12 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Comanche, Ford, Grant, Gray, Haskell and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 8, 5:02 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis and 25 more | 88 min |
| Jun 7, 8:15 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Cheyenne, Deuel, Garden, Grant, Morrill | 60 min |
| Jun 8, 3:46 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Chase, Deuel, Dundy, Frontier, Garden and 7 more | 119 min |
| Jun 8, 2:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Kimball, Morrill, Scotts Bluff and 1 more | 7 hr |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.