Funnel Cloud, Laramie
- When
- June 18, 1:05 PM MST to 1:25 PM MST
- Where
- Laramie County, 5 mi W of Cheyenne
- Coordinates
- 41.307, -104.690 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
As many as 3 funnel clouds were observed passing over Cheyenne.
Tornado and Hail in Wyoming, June 18, 1997
2 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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
- $27,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
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), 20 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:22 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Laramie
- When
- June 18, 1:15 PM MST to 1:20 PM MST
- Where
- Laramie County, Cheyenne
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.130, -104.820
Tornado, Laramie
- When
- June 18, 1:25 PM MST to 1:26 PM MST
- Where
- Laramie County, 4 mi NE of Cheyenne
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Property damage
- $2,000
- Coordinates
- 41.170, -104.770
Anticyclonic tornado touched near intersection of Four Mile Road and College Drive, destroying a storage shed.
Hail, Laramie
- When
- June 18, 1:50 PM MST to 1:55 PM MST
- Where
- Laramie County, Cheyenne
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 41.130, -104.820
What these are
- Funnel Cloud
- A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- 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
- Damaging Winds in Maryland, June 18, 1997
- Flash Flooding in Mississippi, June 18, 1997
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Virginia, June 18, 1997
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in New York, June 18, 1997
- Flash Flooding and Lightning Strike in Ohio, June 18, 1997
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, June 18, 1997
- Flash Flood in Louisiana, June 18, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Virginia, June 18, 1997
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, June 18 to 24, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, June 18, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Maryland, June 18, 1997
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in West Virginia, June 18, 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: 5608574, 5608259, 5608258, 5608260.