Tornado, Colfax
- When
- July 3, 2:35 PM CST
- Where
- Colfax County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Coordinates
- 36.550, -104.530
Tornado in New Mexico, July 3, 1991
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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, July 3, 1991
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, July 3, 1991
- Damaging Winds in Arkansas, July 3, 1991
- Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, July 3, 1991
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, July 3, 1991
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 3, 1991
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 3, 1991
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Illinois, July 3, 1991
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 3, 1991
- Damaging Winds in Kentucky, July 3, 1991
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, July 3, 1991
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 3, 1991
More
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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: 10074315.