Colorado

Storms in Colorado in 2006

1,564 events in 427 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Colorado in 2006, 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 2006 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

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The year

Events
1,564
Deaths
12
Injuries
20
Damage
$22 million
Episodes
427

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
Hail34300$1.5 million
Winter Weather24700
Winter Storm22910$7,000
Drought20200
Thunderstorm Wind11300$24,000
Heavy Snow6900
High Wind6600$100,000
Flash Flood5304$18 million
Blizzard4120$102,000
Avalanche3331
Heavy Rain3310$5,000
Frost/Freeze3200
Wildfire2202$1.0 million
Tornado2100$1.1 million
Debris Flow1820$196,000
Lightning17313$92,000
Strong Wind1300$73,000
Funnel Cloud500
Flood300$15,000
Dense Fog300
Dust Devil100$2,000

Every episode, month by month

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December 2006

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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.