Tornado, Las Animas
- When
- June 7, 10:15 PM MST to 10:20 PM MST
- Where
- Las Animas County, Ville Green
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 3 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Property damage
- $30,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 37.300, -103.520
Tornado in Colorado, June 7, 1998
m. on the 7th near Villegreen.
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
- $30,000
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS PUB wrote it up.
A tornado touched down shortly after 11 p.m. on the 7th near Villegreen. It destroyed a barn and outbuildings on the Lester Jackson Ranch. Fences 3 miles northeast of Jackson Ranch through Snake and Cherry Canyons were destroyed.
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 141 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:13 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
- Hail in Texas, June 7, 1998
- Hail and Heavy Rain in Utah, June 7, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, June 7, 1998
- Tornadoes and Hail in New Mexico, June 7, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Colorado, June 7, 1998
- Hail in Nebraska, June 7, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, June 7, 1998
- High Surf in Hawaii, June 7, 1998
- High Wind in Alaska, June 7 to 8, 1998
- Hail in Texas, June 7, 1998
- Hail in Oklahoma, June 7, 1998
- Hail in Texas, June 7, 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: 5652438.