Colorado

Storms in Colorado in 2008

1,365 events in 320 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Colorado in 2008, 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 2008 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
1,365
Deaths
20
Injuries
129
Damage
$167 million
Episodes
320

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
Hail39221$518,000
Winter Storm305122$15,000
Winter Weather26700$15,000
High Wind8704$9.6 million
Thunderstorm Wind7216$10,000
Heavy Snow4200
Tornado40184$148 million
Flash Flood3401$480,000
Lightning2327$755,000
Blizzard1900$430,000
Frost/Freeze1900
Flood1500$360,000
Avalanche1373$1,000
Wildfire931$6.1 million
Heavy Rain700
Debris Flow700$4,000
Drought500
Dense Fog430$200,000
Funnel Cloud400
Dust Devil100$10,000

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.