Tornado, Elbert
- When
- July 14, 3:15 PM MST
- Where
- Elbert County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Coordinates
- 39.170, -103.880
Tornado in Colorado, July 14, 1988
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
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Tornado and Hail in New York, July 14, 1988
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Maine, July 14, 1988
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in New Hampshire, July 14, 1988
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Vermont, July 14, 1988
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, July 14, 1988
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, July 14, 1988
- Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, July 14, 1988
- Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 14, 1988
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Illinois, July 14, 1988
- Damaging Winds in New Jersey, July 14, 1988
- Hail in North Dakota, July 14, 1988
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, July 14, 1988
More
Every storm in Colorado in 1988Every state in 1988This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Colorado, 1988Warnings in Colorado, July 1988
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: 9985708.