Tornado, Elbert
- When
- June 21, 2:08 PM MST
- Where
- Elbert County, 13 mi NNE of Kiowa
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 25 yd
- Reported by
- STORM CHASER
- Coordinates
- 39.520, -104.370
Tornadoes in Colorado, June 21, 1998
Two landspouts touched down briefly.
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
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS BOU wrote it up.
Two landspouts touched down briefly.
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 33 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:08 UTC.
Event by event
2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Arapahoe
- When
- June 21, 2:14 PM MST
- Where
- Arapahoe County, 11 mi W of Byers
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 25 yd
- Reported by
- STORM CHASER
- Coordinates
- 39.720, -104.420
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 Florida, June 21, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 21, 1998
- Heat in Oklahoma, June 21, 1998
- Flooding in Iowa, June 21 to 23, 1998
- Flash Flood and Hail in Nebraska, June 21, 1998
- Flash Flood and Hail in Oklahoma, June 21, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 21, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, June 21, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, June 21, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, June 21, 1998
- Damaging Winds in Puerto Rico, June 21 to 22, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Florida, June 21, 1998
More
Every storm in Colorado in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Colorado, 1998Warnings in Colorado, June 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: 5656037, 5656038.