Tornado, Archuleta
- When
- April 25, 5:15 PM MST to 5:24 PM MST
- Where
- Archuleta County, Pagosa Spgs to 1 mi S of Pagosa Spgs
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 0.1 yd
- Property damage
- $1,000
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 37.250, -107.030
Tornado in Colorado, April 25, 1999
A tornado touched down in a forested area near Pagosa Springs and ripped out large pine trees along a quarter mile path which was about 100 yards in width. 5 hours.
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
- $1,000
- 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 GJT wrote it up.
A tornado touched down in a forested area near Pagosa Springs and ripped out large pine trees along a quarter mile path which was about 100 yards in width. Trees falling on power lines knocked out electricity for most residents in Archuleta County for about 1.5 hours. This was the first documented tornado in Archuleta County.
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
- Flood in Oklahoma, April 25 to 30, 1999
- Flash Flooding in Oklahoma, April 25, 1999
- Flooding in Oklahoma, April 25 to 28, 1999
- Flash Flooding in Texas, April 25, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Texas, April 25, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Florida, April 25, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, April 25, 1999
- Flash Flooding in Missouri, April 25, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, April 25, 1999
- Wildfire in Florida, April 25, 1999
- Hail in Colorado, April 25, 1999
- Heavy Snow in Wyoming, April 25, 1999
More
Every storm in Colorado in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Colorado, 1999Warnings in Colorado, April 1999
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: 5697674.