Tornado, Carbon
- When
- August 10, 2:46 PM MST to 2:53 PM MST
- Where
- Carbon County, Rawlins to 6 mi NE of Rawlins
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 11 yd
- Coordinates
- 41.850, -107.170
Touched down in open country causing no damage.
Tornado in Wyoming, August 10, 1997
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
- 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.
The radar
The Riverton/Lander radar (KRIW), 173 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:48 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 Flooding and Hail in Nevada, August 10, 1997
- Damaging Winds in Texas, August 10, 1997
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, August 10 to 11, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, August 10, 1997
- Flash Flood in Utah, August 10, 1997
- Hail in Texas, August 10, 1997
- Damaging Winds in Utah, August 10, 1997
- Flash Flood and Hail in Idaho, August 10, 1997
- High Wind in Alaska, August 10 to 11, 1997
- Flood and Heavy Rain in Idaho, August 10, 1997
- Damaging Winds in Texas, August 10, 1997
- Waterspout in Florida, August 10, 1997
More
Every storm in Wyoming in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Wyoming, 1997Warnings in Wyoming, August 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: 5609678.