Colorado, 1994

Tornado in Colorado, August 1, 1994

August 1, 1994 · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
$500
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.

Tornado, Phillips

When
August 1, 5:00 PM MST
Where
Phillips County, Haxtun (8ne)
Rating
F0
Path length
0.25 mi
Path width
50 yd
Property damage
$500
Coordinates
40.594, -102.358 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

A tornado, which was estimated to be 50 feet wide and a quarter mile on the ground, passed through a feed lot with damage sustained to cattle buildings and feeders.

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

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: 10318678.