Tornado, Mesa
- When
- September 8, 1:05 PM MST to 1:10 PM MST
- Where
- Mesa County, 9 mi ESE of Whitewater
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.4 mi
- Path width
- 40 yd
- Property damage
- $1,000
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 38.933, -108.283
Tornado in Colorado, September 8, 2000
A tornado traveled east across two roads in an area just south of Kannah Creek. 100 year old trees were blown down and branches were twisted around some trees.
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
- $1,000
- 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 traveled east across two roads in an area just south of Kannah Creek. 100 year old trees were blown down and branches were twisted around some trees. A power pole was snapped off near a church. One-foot diameter tree limbs were blown over 100 yards away into a picnic area.
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 16 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:04 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
- Wildfire in Oklahoma, September 8 to 19, 2000
- Drought in Arkansas, September 8, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, September 8, 2000
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, September 8, 2000
- Damaging Winds in Colorado, September 8, 2000
- Wildfire in California, September 8, 2000
- Hail in Arizona, September 8, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, September 8, 2000
- Hail in Utah, September 8, 2000
- Tornado in Utah, September 8, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Colorado, September 8, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Colorado, September 8, 2000
More
Every storm in Colorado in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Colorado, 2000Warnings in Colorado, September 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: 5174024.