Tornado, Sweetwater
- When
- June 10, 1:45 PM MST
- Where
- Sweetwater County, 20 mi SW of Rock Spgs Arpt
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Coordinates
- 41.400, -109.330
Tornado in Wyoming, June 10, 1997
Two tornadoes touched down briefly on west side of Flaming Gorge Reservoir. Path length and width estimated.
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS RIW wrote it up.
Two tornadoes touched down briefly on west side of Flaming Gorge Reservoir. Path length and width estimated.
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
- Flash Flooding in Mississippi, June 10, 1997
- Flash Flood and Flooding in Utah, June 10, 1997
- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, June 10, 1997
- Lightning Strike in New York, June 10, 1997
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 10, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 10, 1997
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Texas, June 10, 1997
- Funnel Clouds in Texas, June 10, 1997
- Hail in Colorado, June 10, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Wind in New Mexico, June 10, 1997
- Hail in Colorado, June 10, 1997
- Flood in Colorado, June 10, 1997
More
Every storm in Wyoming in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Wyoming, 1997Warnings in Wyoming, 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: 5603217.