Tornado, Crook
- When
- May 7, 4:30 PM MST to 4:40 PM MST
- Where
- Crook County, Hulett to 12 mi NNE of Hulett
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 3 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Coordinates
- 44.850, -104.600
Tornado in Wyoming, May 7, 1996
A tornado began on the north side of Highway 112 near Deer Creek uprooting 20 to 30 trees. The tornado moved east northeast 3 miles uprooting several large trees and destroying part of a barn.
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
- $10,000
- 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 UNR wrote it up.
A tornado began on the north side of Highway 112 near Deer Creek uprooting 20 to 30 trees. The tornado moved east northeast 3 miles uprooting several large trees and destroying part of a barn.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Flooding in Kentucky, May 7 to 29, 1996
- Flash Flood in Missouri, May 7, 1996
- Hail in Alabama, May 7, 1996
- Hail in Georgia, May 7, 1996
- Cold in New York, May 7, 1996
- High Wind in Alaska, May 7, 1996
- High Wind in Alaska, May 7 to 8, 1996
- Hail in Kansas, May 7, 1996
- Flood in Missouri, May 7 to 12, 1996
- Flood in Missouri, May 7 to 17, 1996
- Hail in Kansas, May 7, 1996
- Hail in Kansas, May 7, 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: 5554630.