Tornado, Washakie
- When
- August 28, 2:45 PM MST to 3:00 PM MST
- Where
- Washakie County, 20 mi SE of Worland
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 75 yd
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 43.820, -107.680
Tornado in Wyoming, August 28, 1999
Tornado was reported and photographed by an individual in Worland as it intermittently touched down over open country. Path length, width, intensity, and exact location are estimates.
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
- None recorded
- 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 RIW wrote it up.
Tornado was reported and photographed by an individual in Worland as it intermittently touched down over open country. Path length, width, intensity, and exact location are estimates.
The radar
The Riverton/Lander radar (KRIW), 106 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:44 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
- Wildfire in California, August 28 to 31, 1999
- Flash Flooding in Nebraska, August 28 to 29, 1999
- Wildfire in California, August 28 to 31, 1999
- Hail in Nebraska, August 28, 1999
- Hail in Nebraska, August 28, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Texas, August 28, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Colorado, August 28, 1999
- Hail in Nebraska, August 28, 1999
- Wildfire in Texas, August 28 to 29, 1999
- Wildfire in California, August 28 to 31, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, August 28, 1999
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Texas, August 28, 1999
More
Every storm in Wyoming in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Wyoming, 1999Warnings in Wyoming, 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: 5710248.