CrisisLex — 2013_Colorado_floods

A Twitter dataset of 1,000 tweets, collected by Olteanu et al. via Twitter API during the 2013 Colorado floods crisis. Each record contains tweet text, crisis type, country, event name. The dataset is notable for its tweets from the 2013 Colorado floods crisis, collected systematically across 26 events for comparative analysis. Intended for research into crisis informatics, disaster response, social media analysis, cross-crisis comparison, emergency communication patterns, situation awareness.

#Colorado#Crisis informatics#Crisislex

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Analytics

9.9
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
12.5
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
coloradocofloodfloodingfloodsboulderfloodboulderhelpfloodpeopleampcowxoilunaccountedraindeadwaterbestrappercoloradofloodvictimscountymissingnewaffectedhundredsgas9newsdeathhomeshttpinitialsofsomeonespecialnewsdisasterflashrelief500damagefrackingtodaycofloodreliefrescuetollvideodestroyedfollowersneedpetsspillsdenverprayersevacuated
Topic clusters

Topic 0

boulderflood
boulder
creek
cowx
road
stay
close
new

Topic 1

coflood
cofloodrelief
help
amp
need
donate
victim
update

Topic 2

colorado
flood
flooding
floods
help
denver
bring
town

Topic 3

dead
flash
person
flooding
colorado
kill
deadly
home

Topic 4

oil
gas
spill
fracke
colorado
flooding
tank
flood

Topic 5

coflood
coloradoflood
colorado
help
relief
victim
flood
aurora

Topic 6

unaccounted
unaccounte
people
miss
colorado
flood
dead
flooding

Topic 7

aerial
photo
flooding
colorado
drone
picture
view
fema

Topic 8

prayer
affect
thought
pray
colorado
navy
amp
family

Topic 9

pet
rescue
animal
lose
colorado
flooding
twin
underway
Top hashtags
#coflood298
#boulderflood216
#cowx56
#colorado42
#bestrapper37
#coloradoflood36
#initialsofsomeonespecial27
#boulder26
#cofloodrelief22
#fracking13
#longmont11
#news9
#copets8
#flood8
#flooding8
#music8
#bb157
#denver7
#throwbackthursday7
#breaking6
Top emoji
🙏4
😂3
🐯2
🐻2
😢2
😥2
😭2
💙1
😔1

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
crisislex-2013_Colorado_floods
Authors
Olteanu, Alexandra; Vieweg, Sarah; Castillo, Carlos
Year
2015
Source paper
What to Expect When the Unexpected Happens: Social Media Communications Across Crises
DOI / arXiv
10.1145/2675133.2675242
License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0)
Records
1,000
Text corpus
tweet text
Languages
en
Collected
2012-2013 (2010s)
Region
Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://crisislex.org/ link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 288.4 KB across 2 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.

How to cite

BibTeX

@misc{echo2026,
  title  = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
  author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://echo.directory},
  note   = {Syracuse University}
}

@inproceedings{olteanu2015expect,
  author    = {Olteanu, Alexandra and Vieweg, Sarah and Castillo, Carlos},
  title     = {What to Expect When the Unexpected Happens: Social Media Communications Across Crises},
  year      = {2015},
  doi       = {10.1145/2675133.2675241},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM 2015 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing},
  series    = {CSCW '15},
  publisher = {ACM},
  address   = {Vancouver, BC, Canada}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Olteanu, A., Vieweg, S., & Castillo, C. (2015). CrisisLex — 2013_Colorado_floods [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675242

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Olteanu, Alexandra, et al. CrisisLex — 2013_Colorado_floods. 2015, doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675242.

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