Tornado, Mesa
- When
- April 15, 4:05 PM MST to 4:07 PM MST
- Where
- Mesa County, 5 mi NW of Mack
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Reported by
- PARK/FOREST SERVICE
- Coordinates
- 39.267, -108.933
Tornado in Colorado, April 15, 2000
A Colorado State Park Ranger spotted a tornado to the northwest of Highline Lake. The tornado touched down just north of where two funnel clouds were spotted minutes earlier.
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 Colorado State Park Ranger spotted a tornado to the northwest of Highline Lake. The tornado touched down just north of where two funnel clouds were spotted minutes earlier. The tornado remained over open country.
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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, April 15, 2000
- Tornado in North Carolina, April 15, 2000
- Hail in Texas, April 15, 2000
- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, April 15 to 16, 2000
- Tornado in North Carolina, April 15, 2000
- Hail in Texas, April 15, 2000
- Frost and Freeze in Wisconsin, April 15 to 16, 2000
- High Wind in Texas, April 15, 2000
- Hail in Texas, April 15, 2000
- Hail in Texas, April 15, 2000
- Hail in Florida, April 15, 2000
- Tornado in North Carolina, April 15, 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: 5138039.