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2014 tornadoes in Colorado

49 tornadoes touched down in Colorado in 2014, 50 percent above the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

2013 2015 The whole country in 2014

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 2014

May 7 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 7	3:15 PM MDT	EF0	Weld	2.6	100
May 7	4:05 PM MDT	EF0	Washington	0.1	50
May 7	4:22 PM MDT	EF0	Washington	5.5	100
May 7	5:25 PM MDT	EF0	Phillips	0.1	50

May 8 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 8	3:10 PM MDT	EF0	Lincoln	0.1	50
May 8	3:27 PM MDT	EF0	Lincoln	0.1	50

May 21 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 21	2:05 PM MDT	EF0	Arapahoe	0.1	50
May 21	2:30 PM MDT	EF0	Adams	0.1	50
May 21	2:45 PM MDT	EF0	Adams	0.1	50
May 21	4:20 PM MDT	EF0	Arapahoe	0.1	50
May 21	5:06 PM MDT	EF0	Adams	0.1	50

May 22 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 22	12:45 PM MDT	EF0	Alamosa	0.3	25

May 25 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 25	11:39 AM MDT	EF0	Teller	0.1	25

June 4 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
June 4	4:01 PM MDT	EF0	Adams	0.1	50
June 4	8:15 PM MDT	EF0	Lincoln	0.1	50
June 4	10:15 PM MDT	EF1	Lincoln	5.2	200
June 4	10:44 PM MDT	EF0	Lincoln	3.4	100

June 5 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 5	8:07 PM MDT	EF0	Bent	0.4	50

June 6 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
June 6	1:51 PM MDT	EF1	Las Animas	8.6	400	1	$5,000
June 6	1:56 PM MDT	EF0	Weld	0.1	50
June 6	2:20 PM MDT	EF0	Weld	0.5	100
June 6	2:46 PM MDT	EF1	Las Animas	1.4	100		$3,000
June 6	2:53 PM MDT	EF0	Sedgwick	0.1	100

June 8 9 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries
June 8	10:55 AM MDT	EF1	Park	0.3	100
June 8	11:06 AM MDT	EF0	Park	0.1	50
June 8	12:32 PM MDT	EF2	Teller	7.0	150
June 8	12:54 PM MDT	EF0	Weld	0.1	50
June 8	12:58 PM MDT	EF1	Arapahoe	0.3	100	1
June 8	1:12 PM MDT	EF0	Douglas	0.1	50
June 8	1:17 PM MDT	EF0	Weld	0.1	50
June 8	1:43 PM MDT	EF0	Elbert	0.1	50
June 8	1:43 PM MDT	EF0	Arapahoe	0.1	50

June 14 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 14	5:11 PM MDT	EF0	Lincoln	0.1	50

June 18 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
June 18	8:16 PM MDT	EF0	Washington	0.1	50
June 18	8:26 PM MDT	EF0	Washington	0.1	50
June 18	8:36 PM MDT	EF0	Washington	0.1	50

June 21 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
June 21	2:36 PM MDT	EF1	Adams	0.3	100
June 21	2:42 PM MDT	EF0	Adams	0.1	50
June 21	3:11 PM MDT	EF0	Adams	0.1	50

June 22 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 22	6:06 PM MDT	EF0	Morgan	0.1	50

June 27 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 27	2:18 PM MDT	EF0	Kiowa	2.1	100

June 30 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 30	5:20 PM MDT	EF0	Baca	0.3	50

July 12 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 12	2:45 PM MDT	EF0	El Paso	0.5	50

July 14 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 14	11:40 AM MDT	EF0	Prowers	0.4	75

July 28 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 28	3:53 PM MDT	EF0	Weld	0.1	50
July 28	4:09 PM MDT	EF0	Adams	0.1	50

August 6 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 6	6:10 PM MDT	EF0	Adams	0.1	50

August 25 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 25	5:40 PM MDT	EF0	Fremont	1.0	75

September 29 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 29	1:29 PM MDT	EF0	Delta	0.2	25

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.