Thunderstorm Wind, La Plata
- When
- July 10, 4:35 PM CST
- Where
- La Plata County
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Coordinates
- 37.150, -107.750
Tornado and Damaging Wind in Colorado, July 10, 1978
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 2
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Huerfano
- When
- July 10, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Huerfano County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Injuries
- 2 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 37.620, -104.250
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado in New York, July 10, 1978
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, July 10, 1978
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, July 10, 1978
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Maryland, July 10, 1978
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, July 10, 1978
- Hail and Damaging Wind in District of Columbia, July 10, 1978
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, July 10, 1978
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 10, 1978
- Tornado in West Virginia, July 10, 1978
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, July 10, 1978
- Tornado in Arkansas, July 10, 1978
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, July 10, 1978
More
Every storm in Colorado in 1978Every state in 1978This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Colorado, 1978
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. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 9988674, 9988675.