Colorado, 1993

Tornado and Hail in Colorado, August 5, 1993

August 5, 1993 · 2 events in 2 counties and zones

1 hail, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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

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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
None recorded
Crop damage
$50,000
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 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Delta

When
August 5, 12:00 AM MST
Where
Delta County, Paonia
Measured
0.5 in hail
Crop damage
$50,000
Coordinates
38.861, -107.863 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Marble-size hail caused major damage to the fruit and vegetable crops in the Paonia area (27 miles northeast of Montrose).

Tornado, Larimer

When
August 5, 2:00 PM MST
Where
Larimer County, Wellington
Rating
F0
Path length
0.1 mi
Path width
10 yd
Coordinates
40.666, -105.461 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

County sheriff reported a short-lived tornado touch down in an open field north of Wellington (9 miles northeast of Fort Collins). Lightning struck a transformer in Loveland, causing a brief power outage.

What these are

Hail
Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
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

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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: 10318733, 10318646.