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Tornado Watch 389

June 24, 202613 counties in Colorado; 8 counties in Nebraska; 6 counties in Wyoming

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 24, 2026, 3:50 PM MDT for 13 counties in Colorado; 8 counties in Nebraska; 6 counties in Wyoming. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 24, 2026, 3:50 PM MDT (21:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2026, 12:00 AM MDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 3.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 65 kt

All 27 counties

Adams County, CO, Arapahoe County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Logan County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Washington County, CO, Weld County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Banner County, NE, Box Butte County, NE, Cheyenne County, NE, Dawes County, NE, Kimball County, NE, Morrill County, NE, Scotts Bluff County, NE, Sioux County, NE, Albany County, WY, Converse County, WY, Goshen County, WY, Laramie County, WY, Niobrara County, WY, Platte County, WY

The radar

The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:50 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: 60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 60%
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: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

63 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 3:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Logan, Morgan, Washington	46 min
Jun 24, 4:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	BOU	Morgan	21 min
Jun 24, 4:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Albany, Converse, Platte	45 min
Jun 24, 4:21 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Logan, Morgan, Washington	39 min
Jun 24, 4:26 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Morgan	34 min
Jun 24, 4:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Morgan, Washington	38 min
Jun 24, 4:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BOU	Washington	35 min
Jun 24, 5:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Goshen, Platte	41 min
Jun 24, 5:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Washington	45 min
Jun 24, 5:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Albany, Carbon	46 min
Jun 24, 5:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Sioux	20 min
Jun 24, 5:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Logan, Sedgwick	24 min
Jun 24, 5:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Washington	33 min
Jun 24, 5:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Albany, Carbon	47 min
Jun 24, 5:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Cheyenne	30 min
Jun 24, 5:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Albany	45 min
Jun 24, 5:48 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Logan	42 min
Jun 24, 5:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Albany, Carbon	47 min
Jun 24, 6:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BOU	Washington	30 min
Jun 24, 6:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Goshen	16 min
Jun 24, 6:13 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	BOU	Logan	32 min
Jun 24, 6:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Albany, Carbon	47 min
Jun 24, 6:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BOU	Washington	43 min
Jun 24, 6:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	CYS	Albany, Platte	52 min
Jun 24, 6:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	22 min
Jun 24, 6:35 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Weld	40 min
Jun 24, 6:37 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	BOU	Logan, Phillips	38 min
Jun 24, 6:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Albany, Carbon	47 min
Jun 24, 6:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	CYS	Goshen, Platte	54 min
Jun 24, 6:54 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Washington	36 min
Jun 24, 6:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Yuma	23 min
Jun 24, 6:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	BOU	Weld	31 min
Jun 24, 7:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Cheyenne	40 min
Jun 24, 7:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BOU	Logan, Phillips	17 min
Jun 24, 7:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Albany, Platte	46 min
Jun 24, 7:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BOU	Washington	36 min
Jun 24, 7:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BOU	Weld	33 min
Jun 24, 7:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Yuma	43 min
Jun 24, 7:44 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Weld	31 min
Jun 24, 7:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Boulder, Larimer, Weld	32 min
Jun 24, 7:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Sedgwick	21 min
Jun 24, 8:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BOU	Morgan, Weld	38 min
Jun 24, 8:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Albany, Converse	50 min
Jun 24, 8:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Laramie	52 min
Jun 24, 8:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Morgan	34 min
Jun 24, 8:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Phillips, Sedgwick	39 min
Jun 24, 8:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BOU	Morgan	51 min
Jun 24, 8:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BOU	Morgan, Washington	33 min
Jun 24, 9:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Washington	39 min
Jun 24, 9:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Adams, Arapahoe	42 min
Jun 24, 9:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Phillips	34 min
Jun 24, 9:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Arapahoe	45 min
Jun 24, 9:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Adams	24 min
Jun 24, 9:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BOU	Morgan, Washington	39 min
Jun 24, 10:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Arapahoe, Denver, Douglas, Jefferson	29 min
Jun 24, 10:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Lincoln, Washington	42 min
Jun 24, 10:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BOU	Arapahoe, Elbert	35 min
Jun 24, 10:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	BOU	Washington	33 min
Jun 24, 10:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	GLD	Yuma	60 min
Jun 24, 11:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Arapahoe	21 min
Jun 24, 11:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	59 min
Jun 24, 11:23 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Yuma	3 hr
Jun 24, 11:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	58 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 23, 9:03 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso and 6 more	87 min
Jun 23, 10:05 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Phillips, Sedgwick	55 min
Jun 23, 10:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Prowers and 1 more	6 hr
Jun 23, 10:52 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley and 12 more	53 min
Jun 24, 2:11 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baca	3 hr
Jun 24, 12:11 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Las Animas	3 hr
Jun 24, 2:20 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, Elbert and 5 more	115 min
Jun 24, 2:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Crowley, El Paso, Huerfano, Las Animas, Otero, Pueblo and 1 more	7 hr
Jun 24, 4:47 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crowley, El Paso, Huerfano, Las Animas, Otero, Pueblo	58 min
Jun 23, 6:22 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Banner, Scotts Bluff	53 min
Jun 24, 5:46 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arthur, Dawson, Franklin, Frontier, Furnas, Garden and 12 more	29 min

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.