Tornado, Mesa
- When
- April 11, 4:12 PM MST to 4:17 PM MST
- Where
- Mesa County, 4 mi ESE of Walker Arpt
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
- Coordinates
- 39.100, -108.450
Tornado in Colorado, April 11, 2000
A tornado in the northeast part of the Grand Valley was observed by many people, including three NWS on-duty personnel, trained weather spotters, and contract FAA tower personnel. The tornado apparently stayed over open country and no damage was reported.
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 GJT wrote it up.
A tornado in the northeast part of the Grand Valley was observed by many people, including three NWS on-duty personnel, trained weather spotters, and contract FAA tower personnel. The tornado apparently stayed over open country and no damage was reported.
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 21 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:13 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
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- Winter Weather in New York, April 11 to 12, 2000
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Texas, April 11, 2000
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, April 11, 2000
- High Wind in Tennessee, April 11, 2000
- Hail in Texas, April 11, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, April 11, 2000
- High Wind in Alaska, April 11, 2000
- Wildfire in Florida, April 11, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Texas, April 11, 2000
More
Every storm in Colorado in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Colorado, 2000Warnings in Colorado, April 2000
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: 5138038.