Unrated tornado, Wild Horse, Colorado, June 2, 2020

1. EF065 to 85 mph

   Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.

2. EF186 to 110 mph

   Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. EF4166 to 200 mph

   Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.

6. 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.

7. Unratedthis tornado

   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.

Rating

Unrated

Date

June 2, 2020

Touchdown

1:27 PM MDT (19:27 UTC)

Lifted

1:31 PM MDT (19:31 UTC)

On the ground

4 minutes

Path length

1.1 miles (1.8 km)

Path width

30 yards (27 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Cheyenne County

Touchdown point

38.988, -102.945

Lift-off point

38.974, -102.955

Record number

2006021327-01

During the afternoon several weak landspout tornadoes were reported from slow moving storms in northern Cheyenne County. No damage was reported from these landspouts.||After the landspouts had ended, a weak front moving east across East Central Colorado caused a brief dust storm to occur south of Burlington near a feedlot.||During the late afternoon another round of thunderstorms developed west into Colorado from Kansas. A gust of 59 MPH was reported from one of these storms in Hale.

Brief landspout tornado observed by NWS employee and Viaero webcam. This is the first observed landspout of the day.

Brief landspout tornado observed by NWS employee and Viaero webcam.

Third brief landspout tornado observed by NWS employee and Viaero webcam. This one began as the second landspout tornado of the day was ending.

From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.

1 minute of warning. NWS GLD issued a tornado warning for this county at 19:26 UTC, 1 minute before the tornado touched down, in force until 20:15 UTC.

Every warning and watch covering the touchdown point that day, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service products. Lead time is measured from the issue of the warning in force to the touchdown time in the database, both of which were recorded to the minute by different people.

The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a General Thunderstorms Risk. The outlook in force was issued at 16:32 UTC.

SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.

The radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 116 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 19:27 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track

Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.

Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.

The live radar over the trackEvery 2020 tornado in ColoradoEvery tornado in Colorado since 1950Warnings in force in Colorado nowThe forecast where you are

5 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

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.

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