Colorado

Storms in Colorado in 2013

1,542 events in 315 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Colorado in 2013, 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 2013 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
1,542
Deaths
19
Injuries
41
Damage
$1.0 billion
Episodes
315

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
Winter Weather30700
Hail26900$42,000
Drought21800
Winter Storm17800$10,000
Flash Flood147918$668 million
Thunderstorm Wind10400$288,000
Heavy Snow7700$50,000
High Wind5200$12,000
Tornado2700$270,000
Flood2600$47 million
Frost/Freeze2500
Dense Fog2400
Heavy Rain1700
Debris Flow1600$52,000
Blizzard1400
Avalanche131010
Wildfire1301$296 million
Lightning7012$62,000
Dust Storm400$25,000
Funnel Cloud400

Every episode, month by month

January 2013

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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.