Tornado, Adams
- When
- July 2, 5:10 PM MST
- Where
- Adams County, 2 mi SE of Barr Lake
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 25 yd
- Reported by
- AIRPLANE PILOT
- Coordinates
- 39.930, -104.750
A small landspout touched down briefly but did no damage.
Tornado and Damaging Winds in Colorado, July 2, 1998
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 Denver radar (KFTG), 24 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:07 UTC.
Event by event
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Weld
- When
- July 2, 6:50 PM MST
- Where
- Weld County, 21 mi N of New Raymer
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 40.830, -103.780
Thunderstorm Wind, Sedgwick
- When
- July 2, 9:15 PM MST to 9:25 PM MST
- Where
- Sedgwick County, Ovid to Julesburg
- Measured
- 51 kt (59 mph)
- Reported by
- STORM CHASER
- Coordinates
- 40.950, -102.380
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.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 2 to 27, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 2 to 25, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Wildfire in Idaho, July 2 to 31, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Wyoming, July 2, 1998
- Flash Flood in Montana, July 2, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 2, 1998
- Flash Flood and Hail in Tennessee, July 2 to 4, 1998
- Flash Flood and Hail in West Virginia, July 2, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, July 2 to 3, 1998
- Hail in Wyoming, July 2, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Wyoming, July 2, 1998
- Hail in Wyoming, July 2, 1998
More
Every storm in Colorado in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Colorado, 1998Warnings in Colorado, July 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: 5662476, 5662477, 5662478.