Tornado, Adams
- When
- July 13, 9:55 PM MST to 10:00 PM MST
- Where
- Adams County, Strasburg
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Coordinates
- 39.720, -104.300
Tornado in Colorado, July 13, 1996
The second tornado was much weaker and on the ground for a much shorter time. The twister did manage to topple a church steeple and down a number of power and light poles.
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS BOU wrote it up.
The second tornado was much weaker and on the ground for a much shorter time. The twister did manage to topple a church steeple and down a number of power and light poles. In addition, several large trees were also damaged and a camper shell was picked up and knocked into a nearby tree.
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 22 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:46 UTC.
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 in Colorado, July 13, 1996
- Tropical Storm in New Jersey, July 13, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Tennessee, July 13, 1996
- Flash Flood in New Hampshire, July 13, 1996
- Rip Current in Florida, July 13, 1996
- Rip Current in Florida, July 13, 1996
- Hail in Wyoming, July 13, 1996
- Tornado in Colorado, July 13, 1996
- Hail in Wyoming, July 13, 1996
- Tornado in Maryland, July 13, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, July 13, 1996
- Hail in Colorado, July 13, 1996
More
Every storm in Colorado in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Colorado, 1996Warnings in Colorado, July 1996
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: 5558285.