Tornadoes · United States · Colorado

2007 tornadoes in Colorado

55 tornadoes touched down in Colorado in 2007, 69 percent above the average of the record for the state. They killed 2 people and injured 9.

2006 2008 The whole country in 2007

The rating scale

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

EF065 to 85 mph
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
EF186 to 110 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
EF2111 to 135 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.
EF3136 to 165 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
EF4166 to 200 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
EF5over 200 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 2007

March 24 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
March 24	3:40 PM MDT	EF0	Yuma	0.3	10
March 24	4:22 PM MDT	EF0	Phillips	0.1	50
March 24	4:55 PM MDT	EF0	Phillips	0.1	50
March 24	5:35 PM MDT	EF0	Sedgwick	0.1	50

March 28 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 28	7:54 PM MDT	EF3	Prowers	28.0	900	2	9	$4.0 million
March 28	9:40 PM CDT	EF1	Greeley to KS	11.6	440			$2,000

April 21 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 21	5:25 PM MDT	EF0	Baca	2.7	75
April 21	5:25 PM MDT	EF0	Prowers	3.0	300
April 21	5:54 PM MDT	EF0	Kit Carson	0.5	10	$30,000

April 23 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 23	10:49 PM MDT	EF0	Yuma	0.5	10
April 23	11:00 PM MDT	EF0	Phillips	0.1	50

April 24 9 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 24	11:58 AM MDT	EF0	Cheyenne	0.5	10	$25,000
April 24	12:15 PM MDT	EF0	Cheyenne	4.0	25
April 24	12:38 PM MDT	EF0	Lincoln	2.0	50
April 24	12:58 PM MDT	EF0	Lincoln	0.1	50
April 24	1:26 PM MDT	EF1	Cheyenne	4.5	25	$1,000
April 24	1:37 PM MDT	EF0	Cheyenne	4.0	25
April 24	1:55 PM MDT	EF0	Cheyenne	5.0	50
April 24	2:00 PM MDT	EF0	Cheyenne	0.5	10
April 24	2:00 PM MDT	EF0	Cheyenne	0.5	10

April 26 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 26	7:02 PM MDT	EF0	Arapahoe	0.1	50

May 3 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 3	5:29 PM MDT	EF0	Weld	0.1	50
May 3	5:58 PM MDT	EF0	Weld	0.1	50
May 3	6:16 PM MDT	EF0	Weld	0.1	50
May 3	6:21 PM MDT	EF0	Weld	0.1	50
May 3	7:50 PM MDT	EF0	Weld	0.1	50
May 3	8:20 PM MDT	EF0	Morgan	0.1	50

May 4 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 4	7:00 PM MDT	EF0	Arapahoe	0.1	50

May 5 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 5	11:57 AM MDT	EF0	Logan	0.1	50

May 14 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 14	6:28 PM MDT	EF0	Weld	0.1	50
May 14	9:37 PM MDT	EF0	Prowers	0.8	75
May 14	9:50 PM MDT	EF0	Prowers	0.5	75
May 14	10:10 PM MDT	EF0	Prowers	0.5	75

May 29 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 29	3:27 PM MDT	EF0	Elbert	0.1	100
May 29	4:00 PM MDT	EF0	Elbert	0.1	50
May 29	4:21 PM MDT	EF0	Yuma	0.5	10
May 29	4:58 PM MDT	EF0	Yuma	0.5	10

June 19 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 19	1:55 PM MDT	EF0	Baca	3.1	75

June 27 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 27	3:26 PM MDT	EF1	Teller	0.9	200

June 29 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 29	4:10 PM MDT	EF0	Custer	1.0	75

July 3 12 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
July 3	3:14 PM MDT	EF0	Kit Carson	0.5	10
July 3	3:21 PM MDT	EF0	Kit Carson	3.0	20
July 3	3:31 PM MDT	EF0	Kit Carson	0.5	10
July 3	3:36 PM MDT	EF0	Kit Carson	1.5	20
July 3	3:45 PM MDT	EF0	Kit Carson	0.5	20
July 3	3:45 PM MDT	EF0	Kit Carson	1.0	20
July 3	3:49 PM MDT	EF0	Kit Carson	0.5	10
July 3	3:57 PM MDT	EF0	Kit Carson	1.5	50	$15,000
July 3	3:57 PM MDT	EF1	Kit Carson	2.0	50	$15,000
July 3	4:08 PM MDT	EF0	Kit Carson	0.5	10
July 3	4:29 PM MDT	EF0	Kit Carson	0.5	10
July 3	9:03 PM MDT	EF0	Bent	0.1	50

July 12 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 12	3:43 PM MDT	EF0	Weld	0.1	50

August 15 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 15	3:15 PM MDT	EF0	Elbert	0.1	440

August 18 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 18	2:10 PM MDT	EF0	Clear Creek	0.1	50

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.