Tornadoes · United States · Colorado

1984 tornadoes in Colorado

41 tornadoes touched down in Colorado in 1984, 26 percent above the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

1983 1985 The whole country in 1984

The rating scale

Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.

F040 to 72 mph
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
F173 to 112 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
F2113 to 157 mph
Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.
F3158 to 206 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
F4207 to 260 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
F5261 to 318 mph
Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.
Unrated
The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

Every tornado in Colorado in 1984

April 19 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 19	4:50 PM MST	F1	Weld	1.0	150			$500 to $5,000
April 19	5:00 PM MST	F1	Weld	0.5	100			$5,000 to $50,000

April 25 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 25	2:40 PM MST	F1	Weld	2.0	100			$50 to $500

May 14 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 14	2:23 PM MDT	F1	Adams	5.0	77			$500 to $5,000

May 18 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 18	2:34 PM MDT	F2	Weld	5.0	50	$5,000 to $50,000
May 18	2:40 PM MDT	F2	Weld	5.0	50
May 18	2:45 PM MDT	F2	Weld	5.0	50	$500 to $5,000
May 18	3:50 PM MDT	F1	Morgan	0.5	30

May 24 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 24	7:05 PM MDT	F2	Morgan	5.0	50	$50,000 to $500,000
May 24	8:56 PM MDT	F1	Kit Carson	1.0	50
May 24	8:59 PM MDT	F1	Morgan	2.0	50	$5,000 to $50,000
May 24	10:45 PM MDT	F1	Prowers	1.0	30	$500 to $5,000

June 3 7 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
June 3	1:08 PM MDT	F1	Adams	2.0	100
June 3	1:10 PM MDT	F1	Elbert	1.0	50
June 3	1:40 PM MDT	F1	Douglas	0.5	50
June 3	1:42 PM MDT	F1	Elbert	1.0	50
June 3	1:47 PM MDT	F1	Arapahoe	1.0	50
June 3	2:20 PM MDT	F1	Douglas	1.0	50
June 3	3:09 PM MDT	F1	Arapahoe	2.0	50

June 8 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 8	3:27 PM MDT	F1	Grand	0.3	50			$500 to $5,000

June 10 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 10	8:10 PM MDT	F1	El Paso	2.0	50

June 12 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
June 12	5:25 PM MDT	F1	Elbert	1.0	77
June 12	6:20 PM MDT	F1	Elbert	1.0	50
June 12	7:07 PM MDT	F1	Lincoln	0.3	50

June 13 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 13	1:20 AM MDT	F1	Weld	0.5	50	$500 to $5,000
June 13	9:40 AM MDT	F1	Morgan	1.0	50	$5,000 to $50,000
June 13	8:11 PM MDT	F1	Elbert	1.0	50

June 16 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 16	2:10 PM MDT	F1	Douglas	0.3	50

June 17 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 17	3:40 PM MDT	F1	Weld	1.0	50

July 6 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 6	2:44 PM MDT	F1	Adams	1.0	50
July 6	3:00 PM MDT	F1	Arapahoe	1.0	40			$5,000 to $50,000

July 15 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 15	12:50 PM MDT	F1	Yuma	0.5	50
July 15	3:15 PM MDT	F1	Washington	1.0	50

July 16 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 16	7:40 PM MDT	F1	Elbert	1.0	50

August 1 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
August 1	2:53 PM MDT	F1	Elbert	0.3	50
August 1	5:15 PM MDT	F1	Weld	0.5	50
August 1	6:05 PM MDT	F1	Weld	0.5	50	$500 to $5,000

August 19 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 19	6:05 PM MDT	F1	Weld	1.0	40			$500 to $5,000
August 19	6:38 PM MDT	F1	Washington	0.5	50

August 21 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 21	6:00 PM MDT	F2	Pueblo	1.0	50			$500 to $5,000

September 21 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 21	4:00 PM MDT	F1	Morgan	0.1	17			$500 to $5,000

Nearby

Every tornado in Colorado since 1950 Warnings in force in Colorado The live radar over Colorado

What this means

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

Sources

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.