Thunderstorm Wind, Las Animas
- When
- July 16, 2:45 PM MST
- Where
- Las Animas County, Thatcher
- Measured
- 65 kt (75 mph)
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 37.550, -104.033
Tornado and Damaging Wind in Colorado, July 16, 2000
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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
- 2
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.
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 102 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:46 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Baca
- When
- July 16, 5:28 PM MST to 6:28 PM MST
- Where
- Baca County, 20 mi SSE of Walsh
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 15 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 37.117, -102.150
A small tornado may have had a nearly continuous track north-northeastward over open country of eastern Baca county. There was no known damage.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
- 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 Pennsylvania, July 16, 2000
- Heat in Louisiana, July 16, 2000
- Heat in Louisiana, July 16, 2000
- Hail in North Carolina, July 16, 2000
- Hail in North Carolina, July 16, 2000
- Flash Flood in Vermont, July 16 to 17, 2000
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Vermont, July 16 to 17, 2000
- Hail in North Carolina, July 16, 2000
- Flash Flood in Vermont, July 16 to 17, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Maryland, July 16, 2000
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Florida, July 16, 2000
- Flash Flood in Vermont, July 16 to 17, 2000
More
Every storm in Colorado in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Colorado, 2000Warnings in Colorado, July 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: 5162608, 5162609.