Tornado, Big Horn
- When
- June 6, 4:58 PM MST to 5:00 PM MST
- Where
- Big Horn County, 1 mi N of Greybull
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Coordinates
- 44.520, -108.050
Tornadoes in Wyoming, June 6, 1997
3 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 Billings radar (KBLX), 155 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:39 UTC.
Event by event
3 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Big Horn
- When
- June 6, 5:00 PM MST to 5:05 PM MST
- Where
- Big Horn County, 1 mi W of Basin
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Coordinates
- 44.380, -108.070
Tornado, Big Horn
- When
- June 6, 5:10 PM MST to 5:20 PM MST
- Where
- Big Horn County, Greybull to 5 mi N of Greybull
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Coordinates
- 44.570, -108.050
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 Flash Flooding in Texas, June 6 to 21, 1997
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, June 6, 1997
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Montana, June 6 to 29, 1997
- Hail in Missouri, June 6, 1997
- Flash Flooding in South Carolina, June 6, 1997
- Flash Flooding in Texas, June 6, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Arizona, June 6, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Arizona, June 6, 1997
- Flash Flooding and Lightning Strike in Texas, June 6 to 7, 1997
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Colorado, June 6, 1997
- Tornado in Wyoming, June 6, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Texas, June 6, 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: 5603207, 5603209, 5603208.