Tornado, Albany
- When
- May 23, 12:30 PM MST to 12:34 PM MST
- Where
- Albany County, 3 mi N of Laramie
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Coordinates
- 41.370, -105.580
Tornado in Wyoming, May 23, 1996
A tornado briefly touched down just north of Laramie. The tornado downed a large spruce tree and a metal shed was blown up into a tree.
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
- $50,000
- 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 CYS wrote it up.
A tornado briefly touched down just north of Laramie. The tornado downed a large spruce tree and a metal shed was blown up into a tree.
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 69 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:32 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
- Flash Flood in Nebraska, May 23, 1996
- Flash Flood in Nebraska, May 23, 1996
- Flash Flood in Nebraska, May 23, 1996
- Flooding in Iowa, May 23 to 24, 1996
- Damaging Wind in California, May 23, 1996
- Flash Flood in Nebraska, May 23, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Kansas, May 23, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Nebraska, May 23, 1996
- Heat in Alabama, May 23, 1996
- High Wind in Alaska, May 23, 1996
- Flood in Missouri, May 23 to 31, 1996
- Flood in Missouri, May 23 to 24, 1996
More
Every storm in Wyoming in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Wyoming, 1996Warnings in Wyoming, 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: 5545533.