Tornado, Coconino
- When
- May 14, 12:15 PM MST to 12:25 PM MST
- Where
- Coconino County, 15 mi E of Jacob Lake
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 25 yd
- Coordinates
- 36.720, -111.950
Three NWS employees observed this weak tornado on the Kaibab Plateau.
Tornado in Arizona, May 14, 1998
1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- 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.
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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, May 14 to 15, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, May 14 to 15, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 14 to 15, 1998
- Flooding in Puerto Rico, May 14, 1998
- High Wind in Kansas, May 14 to 15, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Dakota, May 14, 1998
- Hail in South Dakota, May 14 to 15, 1998
- Hail in Nebraska, May 14, 1998
- High Wind in New Mexico, May 14, 1998
- High Wind in Oklahoma, May 14, 1998
- Flash Flooding in Puerto Rico, May 14, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, May 14, 1998
More
Every storm in Arizona in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Arizona, 1998Warnings in Arizona, May 1998
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: 5640840.