Tornado, La Plata
- When
- August 5, 3:35 PM MST to 3:40 PM MST
- Where
- La Plata County, 3 mi S of Marvel
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 37.070, -108.130
Tornado in Colorado, August 5, 1999
A tornado traveled across a farm, ripped off the roof of a barn-shaped residence, sucked up trees from the ground, and picked up an ATV at least 20 feet into the air before tossing it back to the ground 30 yards away. A diesel storage tank was blown away.
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
- $50,000
- 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 traveled across a farm, ripped off the roof of a barn-shaped residence, sucked up trees from the ground, and picked up an ATV at least 20 feet into the air before tossing it back to the ground 30 yards away. A diesel storage tank was blown away. Ducks were sucked up off a nearby pond. A one-square-foot section of metal roofing material was embedded into the side of a pickup truck.
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
- Lightning Strike in Arizona, August 5, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Oklahoma, August 5, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New Hampshire, August 5, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Connecticut, August 5, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Wyoming, August 5, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Washington, August 5, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, August 5, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, August 5, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, August 5, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Connecticut, August 5, 1999
- Waterspouts in Pennsylvania, August 5 to 21, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Connecticut, August 5, 1999
More
Every storm in Colorado in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Colorado, 1999Warnings in Colorado, August 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: 5713906.