Tornado, Weld
- When
- July 6, 4:10 PM MST
- Where
- Weld County, 26 mi NNE of Stoneham
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Coordinates
- 40.950, -103.470
Tornado and Hail in Colorado, July 6, 1997
2 hail, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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
- 3
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.
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 114 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:10 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Logan
- When
- July 6, 5:05 PM MST to 5:15 PM MST
- Where
- Logan County, 13 mi NNE of Fleming
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.850, -102.730
Hail, Sedgwick
- When
- July 6, 5:47 PM MST
- Where
- Sedgwick County, 3 mi W of Julesburg
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.980, -102.320
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.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Damaging Winds in Florida, July 6, 1997
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Texas, July 6, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, July 6, 1997
- Flood and Hail in Missouri, July 6, 1997
- Hail in Michigan, July 6, 1997
- Hail in Nebraska, July 6, 1997
More
Every storm in Colorado in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Colorado, 1997Warnings in Colorado, July 1997
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: 5607179, 5607180, 5607181.