Colorado

Storms in Colorado in 2003

1,384 events in 452 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Colorado in 2003, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.

Colorado in 2003 on the map

Every episode with a place to put it, colored by kind of event.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

Open the live radar over Colorado

The year

Events
1,384
Deaths
8
Injuries
21
Damage
$113 million
Episodes
452

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

By kind of event

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Hail31402$5.2 million
Drought25200
Winter Weather17300
Heavy Snow12900$30,000
Winter Storm11500
High Wind8400$979,000
Thunderstorm Wind7111$100,000
Flash Flood5500$262,000
Lightning3459$210,000
Tornado3000$175,000
Wildfire2900
Frost/Freeze2100$9.0 million
Heavy Rain1800$32,000
Strong Wind1700$110,000
Dense Fog1400
Debris Flow916$125,000
Blizzard702$93 million
Flood600$3.3 million
Funnel Cloud300
Avalanche211$5,000
Dust Devil100

Every episode, month by month

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Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24.