Friday, Oct 9: Colorado has thunderstorms in the outlook but no severe risk, and none through Sunday.
The Storm Prediction Center's outlook for Colorado over the next three days, the SevereWX forecast for each Colorado city we cover, and what a typical severe weather year looks like here.
SPC outlook for Colorado
Day 1 (Friday, October 9): General thunderstorms
Day 2 (Saturday, October 10): General thunderstorms
Colorado averages 43.9 tornadoes a year (1996–2025), about 1.6 of them rated EF2 or stronger.
75% of them touch down between May and July, and June alone accounts for 31%. The busiest year on record in that span was 1996, with 98.
Storm reports average about 449 for large hail a year (58.3 of them 2 inches or larger) and 169 for damaging wind (2016–2025).
Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather database. Tornadoes are counted in the state where they began. One storm can produce many reports. spc.noaa.gov