Tornado, Carbon
- When
- June 6, 1:04 PM MST to 1:06 PM MST
- Where
- Carbon County, 5 mi S of Seminoe Dam
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Coordinates
- 42.080, -106.920
Brief touchdown in open country just south of Seminoe Reservoir.
Tornado in Wyoming, June 6, 1997
1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud, 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
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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), 168 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:01 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
Funnel Cloud, Carbon
- When
- June 6, 1:11 PM MST to 1:13 PM MST
- Where
- Carbon County, Walcott
- Coordinates
- 41.695, -106.931 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
2 funnel clouds near Walcott
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.
- Funnel Cloud
- A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- 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
- Tornadoes in Wyoming, June 6, 1997
- Tornado in Wyoming, 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: 5608245, 5608246.