Colorado, 2000

Tornado and Hail in Colorado, July 5, 2000

July 5, 2000 · NWS BOU · 5 events in 1 county or zone

A large and destructive tornado accompanied with hail, up to softball size, ripped through eastern Logan County. An 88-year old farmer and his wife received minor injuries when the tornado flattened their home.

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

Open the live radar over this ground

The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Property damage
$750,000
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
5

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 BOU wrote it up.

A large and destructive tornado accompanied with hail, up to softball size, ripped through eastern Logan County. An 88-year old farmer and his wife received minor injuries when the tornado flattened their home. The elderly man spared from serious injury when the recliner he was sitting in flipped upside down; just before a wall caved in on top of him. The farmer suffered a cracked vertebra and a lacerated hand. In all, five farmsteads were either damaged or destroyed. Several structures were destroyed, including three homes and numerous outbuildings. One modular home was lifted up and dropped 50 feet away from its foundation. Numerous pieces of farm equipment including, machinery, stock trailers and vehicles were damaged or destroyed. Three square miles of corn crops and several trees were destroyed. Some livestock were also killed. The tornado snapped power poles and downed electrical lines between Holyoke and Fleming. Initial damage estimates to two properties alone were around $750,000.

The radar

The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 170 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:22 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment

Event by event

4 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Logan

When
July 5, 7:25 PM MST
Where
Logan County, 7 mi N of Crook
Measured
1.75 in hail
Reported by
TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates
40.950, -102.800

Hail, Logan

When
July 5, 7:45 PM MST
Where
Logan County, 1 mi E of Crook
Measured
4.5 in hail
Reported by
NEWSPAPER
Coordinates
40.850, -102.783

Hail, Logan

When
July 5, 7:50 PM MST
Where
Logan County, Crook
Measured
2.75 in hail
Reported by
TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates
40.850, -102.800

Tornado, Logan

When
July 5, 8:10 PM MST
Where
Logan County, 2 mi NNE of Dailey
Rating
F3
Path length
6 mi
Path width
1,320 yd
Injuries
2 direct, 0 indirect
Property damage
$750,000
Reported by
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates
40.683, -102.700

Hail, Logan

When
July 5, 8:10 PM MST
Where
Logan County, 2 mi NNE of Dailey
Measured
1 in hail
Reported by
TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates
40.683, -102.700

What these are

Hail
Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
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

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: 5154800, 5154801, 5154803, 5154802, 5154804.