Tornado, La Plata
- When
- June 7, 9:00 PM MST to 9:10 PM MST
- Where
- La Plata County, 13 mi S of Ignacio
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Coordinates
- 37.430, -107.630
Tornado in Colorado, June 7, 1997
A tornado touched down on the La Boca Ranch destroying a 20-by-30 foot metal shed. The tornado also uprooted some large cottonwood trees about a quarter mile away from the shed.
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 GJT wrote it up.
A tornado touched down on the La Boca Ranch destroying a 20-by-30 foot metal shed. The tornado also uprooted some large cottonwood trees about a quarter mile away from the shed. The time of touch down was estimated based on radar and satellite imagery, since nobody was at the ranch when the tornado struck.
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 189 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:58 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
- Tornado and Hail in Colorado, June 7 to 12, 1997
- Hail in New Mexico, June 7, 1997
- Flash Flooding in New Mexico, June 7 to 8, 1997
- Tornado in Texas, June 7, 1997
- Flash Flooding in Texas, June 7, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Minnesota, June 7, 1997
- Flash Flooding in Nevada, June 7, 1997
- Flood in Louisiana, June 7, 1997
- Waterspout in Alabama, June 7, 1997
- Hail in New Mexico, June 7, 1997
- Hail in Wisconsin, June 7, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, June 7, 1997
More
Every storm in Colorado in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Colorado, 1997Warnings in Colorado, June 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: 5607770.