Tornado, Grand
- When
- April 18, 9:55 AM MST to 9:57 AM MST
- Where
- Grand County, 2 mi N of Moab
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Property damage
- $1,000
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 38.617, -109.550
Tornado in Utah, April 18, 2000
This tornado was actually a gustnado. The gustnado travelled across a drill rig site which was near the Slick Rock Campground.
Where it happened
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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.
This tornado was actually a gustnado. The gustnado travelled across a drill rig site which was near the Slick Rock Campground. Fifteen people were at the drill rig site and took cover when they saw the gustnado approaching. The gustnado picked up rocks and other loose items, breaking out windows on a drill rig enclosure and a nearby truck. The gustnado continued on down the hill and uprooted several trees before dissipating.
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.
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The same day elsewhere
- High Wind in Colorado, April 18, 2000
- Blizzard in South Dakota, April 18 to 19, 2000
- High Wind in New Mexico, April 18, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, April 18, 2000
- High Wind in Colorado, April 18, 2000
- High Wind in Utah, April 18, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, April 18, 2000
- Wildfire and High Wind in Colorado, April 18 to 19, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, April 18 to 19, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in California, April 18, 2000
- Flooding in New Jersey, April 18, 2000
- High Wind in Nebraska, April 18 to 19, 2000
More
Every storm in Utah in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Utah, 2000Warnings in Utah, 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: 5138066.