Tornado, Platte
- When
- May 16, 6:07 PM MST to 6:10 PM MST
- Where
- Platte County, 3 mi NE of Guernsey
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 42.300, -104.700
Brief tornado touched down, but caused no damage.
Tornado in Wyoming, May 16, 2000
1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- 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.
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 128 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:05 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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, May 16 to 17, 2000
- High Wind in Oregon, May 16, 2000
- Debris Flow in New York, May 16 to 31, 2000
- Hail in Wyoming, May 16, 2000
- Hail in Wyoming, May 16, 2000
- Hail in Oklahoma, May 16, 2000
- Hail in Kansas, May 16, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, May 16, 2000
- Frost and Freeze in West Virginia, May 16, 2000
- Hail in Kansas, May 16, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Idaho, May 16, 2000
- Damaging Winds in Texas, May 16, 2000
More
Every storm in Wyoming in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Wyoming, 2000Warnings in Wyoming, May 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: 5147037.