Tornadoes · United States · Colorado · 2025
Unrated tornado, Flagler Arpt, Colorado, June 16, 2025
This Unrated tornado ran 0.0 miles across Kit Carson County on June 16, 2025, touching down at 4:44 PM MDT and reaching 10 yards wide. It killed nobody.
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.
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.
The record
- Rating
- Unrated
- Date
- June 16, 2025
- Touchdown
- 4:44 PM MDT (22:44 UTC)
- Lifted
- 4:45 PM MDT (22:45 UTC)
- On the ground
- 1 minutes
- Path length
- 0.0 miles (0.0 km)
- Path width
- 10 yards (9 m)
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- County
- Kit Carson County
- Touchdown point
- 39.155, -102.978
- Lift-off point
- 39.155, -102.978
- Record number
- 2506161644-01
What the Weather Service recorded
Thunderstorms developed across eastern Colorado on the evening of the 16th. A landspout was reported 11 SSW Seibert. Nickel size hail was reported in Yuma and 4 SE of Yuma along with quarter size hail in Idalia.
Numerous reports from the public of a landspout. The landspout was viewable between Flagler and Bethune.
From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.
The warnings
No tornado warning for this county appears in the archive as in force at the moment the tornado touched down. One was issued for the county at another hour that day.
| Issued (UTC) | Expired | Product | Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22:30 UTC | 23:15 UTC | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD |
| 22:51 UTC | 23:15 UTC | Tornado Warning | GLD |
| 00:05 UTC | 00:45 UTC | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD |
| 01:39 UTC | 02:07 UTC | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD |
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 forecast that day
The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Marginal Risk. The outlook in force was issued at 19:54 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 radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 112 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 22:46 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.
What was reported nearby
Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.
| Time (UTC) | Report | Where | County | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22:33 UTC | LANDSPOUT | 11 Ssw Seibert | Kit Carson, CO | Multiple reports of a landspout around the vicinity of the report location based on radar. Received reports of landspout through 4:44 pm viewable between Flagler and Bethune, CO. |
| 23:58 UTC | BLOWING DUST | 12 Sse Vona | Kit Carson, CO | Time estimated via report. Image of plumes of blowing dust associated with thunderstorm outflow. No reports of visibility reductions at the time. |
From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.
This ground now
The live radar over the trackEvery 2025 tornado in ColoradoEvery tornado in Colorado since 1950Warnings in force in Colorado nowThe forecast where you are
The other tornadoes of June 16, 2025
8 more were confirmed in the United States that day.
| Date | Time | Rating | Where | Path (mi) | Width (yd) | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 16 | 2:13 PM CDT | Unrated | Otter Tail, MN | 0.3 | 50 | |||
| June 16 | 2:40 PM CDT | Unrated | Otter Tail, MN | 0.6 | 50 | |||
| June 16 | 4:21 PM CDT | EF1 | Crow Wing, MN | 11.5 | 400 | |||
| June 16 | 4:46 PM CDT | EF1 | Crow Wing, MN | 10.9 | 900 | |||
| June 16 | 6:31 PM CDT | Unrated | Nicollet, MN | 0.2 | 25 | |||
| June 16 | 6:58 PM CDT | EF0 | Nicollet, MN | 1.3 | 50 | |||
| June 16 | 7:04 PM CDT | EF1 | Lincoln, NE | 0.8 | 50 | |||
| June 16 | 7:20 PM CDT | EF2 | Lincoln, NE | 3.1 | 50 | $140,000 |
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.