Tornado in Arizona, August 6, 1998

Name: Tornado in Arizona, August 6, 1998
Start: 1998-08-06T15:15
End: 1998-08-06T15:17
Location: Arizona

August 6, 1998 · NWS FGZ · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $4,000
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 Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 126 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:15 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Yavapai

When: August 6, 3:15 PM MST to 3:17 PM MST
Where: Yavapai County, 12 mi SSW of Prescott
Rating: F0
Path length: 0.1 mi
Path width: 50 yd
Property damage: $4,000
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 34.380, -112.550

A house under construction was destroyed by an F0 tornado. A neighbour to the house under construction reported he saw a narrow, rotating cloud that extended from the ground to the base of a thunderstorm. This rotating cloud moved from about 300 yards away from the house under construction into the house under construction. The walls of the house were removed from the foundation and reduced to 2 x 4 inch stock and 4 by 8 feet sheets of plywood. This material was suspended in air about 30 seconds.

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.

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The same day elsewhere

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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: 5664464.