Tornado, Douglas
- When
- July 27, 11:30 AM CST
- Where
- Douglas County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Coordinates
- 39.530, -104.950
Tornadoes and Hail in Colorado, July 27, 1981
2 tornado, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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
- 3
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, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, El Paso
- When
- July 27, 11:50 AM CST
- Where
- El Paso County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Coordinates
- 38.850, -104.670
Hail, Douglas
- When
- July 27, 12:20 PM CST
- Where
- Douglas County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.130, -104.850
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.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Damaging Winds in Texas, July 27, 1981
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, July 27, 1981
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Indiana, July 27, 1981
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, July 27, 1981
- Damaging Wind in New Mexico, July 27, 1981
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, July 27, 1981
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, July 27, 1981
More
Every storm in Colorado in 1981Every state in 1981This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Colorado, 1981
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: 9984588, 9984589, 9984590.