Tornado, Sweetwater
- When
- April 14, 12:35 PM MST to 12:36 PM MST
- Where
- Sweetwater County, James Town
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $30,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.517, -109.567
Tornado in Wyoming, April 14, 2000
Weak, short-lived tornado that apparently developed along the gust front associated with a line of fast-moving thunderstorms. James Town is located just west of Green River.
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
- $30,000
- 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 RIW wrote it up.
Weak, short-lived tornado that apparently developed along the gust front associated with a line of fast-moving thunderstorms. James Town is located just west of Green River.
The radar
The Riverton/Lander radar (KRIW), 194 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:35 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.
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The same day elsewhere
- Damaging Wind in Wyoming, April 14, 2000
- Flash Flood in Washington, April 14 to 16, 2000
- Winter Storm in North Dakota, April 14, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, April 14, 2000
- Damaging Winds in Utah, April 14, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Utah, April 14, 2000
- Hail in Kansas, April 14, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Nevada, April 14, 2000
- Wildfire in U.S. Virgin Islands, April 14 to 15, 2000
- Tornado in Florida, April 14, 2000
- Lightning Strike in Florida, April 14, 2000
- Flash Flood in Florida, April 14, 2000
More
Every storm in Wyoming in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Wyoming, 2000Warnings in Wyoming, 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: 5138618.