Tornado, Mesa
- When
- August 8, 4:31 PM MST to 4:36 PM MST
- Where
- Mesa County, 7 mi SW of (Gjt)walker Arpt
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 0.1 yd
- Reported by
- BROADCAST MEDIA
- Coordinates
- 39.050, -108.600
Tornado in Colorado, August 8, 1998
A weak tornado was reported by at least three eyewitnesses. The tornado touched down onto a gravel pit.
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS GJT wrote it up.
A weak tornado was reported by at least three eyewitnesses. The tornado touched down onto a gravel pit. The gravel pit was unoccupied. This was the first documented tornado in the Grand Junction metropolitan area.
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 33 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:32 UTC.
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
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, August 8, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Mississippi, August 8, 1998
- Flood in North Carolina, August 8, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Michigan, August 8, 1998
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 8, 1998
- Hail in Arkansas, August 8, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Colorado, August 8, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, August 8, 1998
- Flash Flooding in Virginia, August 8, 1998
- Flood and Lightning Strike in Arizona, August 8, 1998
- Hail in Arkansas, August 8, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Arkansas, August 8, 1998
More
Every storm in Colorado in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Colorado, 1998Warnings in Colorado, August 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: 5664376.