Tornado, Laramie
- When
- August 28, 3:35 PM CST
- Where
- Laramie County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 41.150, -104.370
Tornadoes in Wyoming, August 28, 1979
2 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
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- 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
2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Laramie
- When
- August 28, 3:35 PM CST
- Where
- Laramie County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 41.150, -104.370
What these are
- 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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Iowa, August 28, 1979
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, August 28, 1979
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, August 28, 1979
- Damaging Winds in Indiana, August 28, 1979
- Damaging Winds in New Hampshire, August 28, 1979
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, August 28, 1979
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, August 28, 1979
- Hail in North Dakota, August 28, 1979
- Damaging Wind in Maryland, August 28, 1979
More
Every storm in Wyoming in 1979Every state in 1979This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Wyoming, 1979
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: 10160760, 10160761.