Colorado, 2000Tornado and High Wind in Colorado, September 21, 2000
September 21, 2000 · NWS PUB · 2 events in 2 counties and zones
1 tornado, 1 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $50,000
- 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.
Tornado, Kiowa
- When
- September 21, 5:00 PM MST to 5:20 PM MST
- Where
- Kiowa County, Sheridan Lake
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 12 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 38.467, -102.283
A tornado destroyed a small, poorly constructed mobile home and damaged some nearby grain bins on the far north side of Sheridan Lake. Some windows were also broken and shingles were ripped off houses. The tornado moved east-southeast through open country of Kiowa county and dissipated near the Colorado-Kansas border.
High Wind, Southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains / E Costilla / Sw Huerfano / X Sw Las Animas
- When
- September 21, 6:35 PM MST to 6:38 PM MST
- Where
- Southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains / E Costilla / Sw Huerfano / X Sw Las Animas forecast zone
- Measured
- 80 kt (92 mph)
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 37.778, -106.530 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
An isolate, brief, non-thunderstorm wind gust to 92 mph was recorded by a trained spotter in the mountains southeast of Fort Garland. No damage was reported.
- 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.
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
- Flash Flood and Flooding in Georgia, September 21, 20002 injured · $770,000 · 9 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, September 21, 20002 injured · $507,000 · 0.88 in hail · 14 events
- Wildfire in California, September 21 to 23, 2000$425,000 · 1 event
- Tropical Storm in Florida, September 21 to 23, 200016 events
- Winter Storm in Wyoming, September 21 to 23, 200015 events
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, September 21, 20001 injured · 1 event
- Damaging Winds in New York, September 21, 200060 kt wind · 8 events
- Tropical Storm in Florida, September 21 to 22, 20006 events
- Flash Flood in Alabama, September 21, 2000$12,000 · 1 event
- Tropical Storm in Alabama, September 21 to 22, 2000$10,000 · 4 events
- Extreme Cold in Oregon, September 21, 20003 events
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, September 21, 200050 kt wind · 2 events
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: 5156708, 5157106.