Tornado in Colorado, July 31, 1994

Name: Tornado in Colorado, July 31, 1994
Start: 1994-07-31T14:37
End: 1994-07-31T14:50
Location: Colorado

July 31, 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: 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.

Tornado, Delta

When: July 31, 2:37 PM MST to 2:50 PM MST
Where: Delta County, Paonia
Rating: F0
Path length: 0.1 mi
Path width: 10 yd
Coordinates: 38.861, -107.863 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

A spotter reported a small tornado touched down in an open field northeast of Paonia (27 miles northeast of Montrose). No damage or injuries was reported.

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.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Colorado in 1994 Every state in 1994 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Colorado, 1994 Warnings in Colorado, July 1994

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: 10318736.