Tornado, Baca
- When
- September 2, 3:20 PM MST to 3:55 PM MST
- Where
- Baca County, 8 mi WSW of Springfield
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 7 mi
- Path width
- 150 yd
- Coordinates
- 37.350, -102.750
Tornado in Colorado, September 2, 1996
Three separate tornadoes touched down west and north of Springfield late in the afternoon. There were a few power poles downed, and some minor damage to fences and a windmill.
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 PUB wrote it up.
Three separate tornadoes touched down west and north of Springfield late in the afternoon. There were a few power poles downed, and some minor damage to fences and a windmill.
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 176 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:22 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
- Lightning Strike in Minnesota, September 2, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Arizona, September 2, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Arizona, September 2, 1996
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, September 2 to 11, 1996
- Hurricane in Maine, September 2, 1996
- Flash Flood in Alabama, September 2, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Florida, September 2, 1996
- High Wind in Massachusetts, September 2, 1996
- Heat in Alaska, September 2 to 3, 1996
- Heavy Rain in Massachusetts, September 2, 1996
- Heavy Rain in Massachusetts, September 2, 1996
- Heavy Rain in Massachusetts, September 2, 1996
More
Every storm in Colorado in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Colorado, 1996Warnings in Colorado, September 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: 5563768.