Tornado, Yuma
- When
- May 22, 6:15 PM MST to 6:20 PM MST
- Where
- Yuma County, 20 mi N of Laird
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 3 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Coordinates
- 40.370, -102.100
Tornado in Colorado, May 22, 1996
TORNADO TOOK DOWN SEVERAL POWER POLES AND DAMAGED GRAIN BINS AND PIVOT SPRINKLERS.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. 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
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 GLD wrote it up.
TORNADO TOOK DOWN SEVERAL POWER POLES AND DAMAGED GRAIN BINS AND PIVOT SPRINKLERS.
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 117 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:15 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
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- Hail in Texas, May 22, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, May 22, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, May 22, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, May 22, 1996
- Hail in Kansas, May 22, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, May 22, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Iowa, May 22, 1996
- Tornado in Colorado, May 22, 1996
- Tornado in Kansas, May 22, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, May 22, 1996
More
Every storm in Colorado in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Colorado, 1996Warnings in Colorado, May 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: 5556025.