Tornadoes · United States · Colorado

1995 tornadoes in Colorado

48 tornadoes touched down in Colorado in 1995, 47 percent above the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

1994 1996 The whole country in 1995

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 1995

March 19 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 19	2:45 PM MST	F1	Alamosa	0.1	10			$5,000 to $50,000

May 6 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 6	9:15 AM MDT	F0	Larimer	0.1	50

May 7 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 7	4:39 PM MDT	F0	Weld	0.5	10

May 8 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 8	3:00 PM MDT	F0	Phillips	0.1	10

May 12 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 12	7:50 PM MDT	F0	Douglas	0.2	50

May 15 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 15	5:45 PM MDT	F0	Kiowa	1.0	50

May 16 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 16	7:50 PM MDT	F1	Cheyenne	0.2	30			$500 to $5,000
May 16	9:58 PM MDT	F0	Bent	1.0	73

May 19 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 19	5:10 PM MDT	F0	Adams	0.1	10

May 26 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 26	3:45 PM MDT	F0	Prowers	0.5	50
May 26	5:00 PM MDT	F0	Bent	1.0	100

June 2 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 2	6:15 PM MDT	F0	Bent	0.1	10

June 3 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
June 3	3:30 PM MDT	F0	Weld	0.1	10
June 3	5:25 PM MDT	F0	Otero	0.1	10
June 3	6:10 PM MDT	F0	Adams	0.5	200

June 6 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
June 6	6:25 PM MDT	F0	Weld	0.1	10
June 6	6:38 PM MDT	F0	Jefferson	0.1	10
June 6	7:10 PM MDT	F0	Weld	0.1	23
June 6	7:11 PM MDT	F0	Adams	0.1	10
June 6	7:12 PM MDT	F0	Phillips	0.1	10

June 7 12 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 7	7:02 PM MDT	F0	Weld	0.1	10
June 7	7:15 PM MDT	F0	Weld	0.1	10
June 7	7:56 PM MDT	F0	Weld	0.1	10
June 7	8:40 PM MDT	F0	Weld	0.1	10
June 7	9:04 PM MDT	F0	Weld	0.1	10
June 7	9:04 PM MDT	F0	Weld	0.1	10
June 7	9:21 PM MDT	F0	Crowley	0.1	10
June 7	10:06 PM MDT	F0	Bent	0.1	10	$5,000 to $50,000
June 7	11:00 PM MDT	F0	Kiowa	0.1	10
June 7	11:30 PM MDT	F1	Kit Carson	0.1	50	$50,000 to $500,000
June 7	11:32 PM MDT	F0	Kiowa	0.1	10
June 7	11:35 PM MDT	F0	Logan	0.1	10

June 15 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 15	7:50 PM MDT	F0	Routt	0.1	10

June 22 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 22	4:40 PM MDT	F1	El Paso	2.0	50			$50,000 to $500,000

June 27 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 27	2:38 PM MDT	F0	Rio Grande	0.1	10

June 29 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 29	2:12 PM MDT	F0	Rio Grande	0.1	10			$500 to $5,000

June 30 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 30	1:55 PM MDT	F0	Costilla	0.1	10

July 1 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 1	2:45 PM MDT	F0	Las Animas	0.5	10

July 13 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 13	6:30 PM MDT	F0	Logan	0.1	10

July 17 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
July 17	3:26 PM MDT	F0	Phillips	0.1	10
July 17	3:39 PM MDT	F0	Logan	1.5	10
July 17	4:40 PM MDT	F0	Phillips	0.1	10

July 19 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 19	6:40 PM MDT	F0	Elbert	0.1	10

July 20 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 20	3:47 PM MDT	F0	Adams	0.1	10

July 30 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 30	7:16 PM MDT	F0	Morgan	0.1	10

August 4 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 4	2:18 PM MDT	F0	El Paso	0.1	10

September 17 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 17	7:22 PM MDT	F0	Washington	0.1	10

September 18 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 18	2:58 PM MDT	F0	Cheyenne	2.5	20

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.