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Tornado in Laramie County, Wyoming

Tornado May 27, 2023 · Laramie County, Wyoming

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Not rated

0.5 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

Not rated. NOAA lists no rating for this tornado. Ratings come from surveying damage, and the National Weather Service now records “EFU” (unknown) when a tornado hit nothing a survey team could rate.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Brief landspout tornado occurred southwest of Cheyenne and just southwest

of the Dyno Nobel Plant per pictures and video evidence. Timing based on

radar and reports received. No damage occurred or was reported with the

landspout tornado remaining in open space just west and south of known

infrastructure. No injuries, no fatalities, and no damage.

The wider storm

Thunderstorms initially developed along the Laramie Range in the late morning and early afternoon hours on 5/27, quickly becoming more widespread and more intense while tracking slowly eastward across the high plains of southeast Wyoming. These storms were associated with numerous reports of hail and torrential rainfall, as well as a few tornadoes. Most notably, a supercell tornado developed in the vicinity of Laramie Peak, near Esterbrook Campground along the Converse and Platte County line. No damage was reported.

Began near Speer (41.0673, -104.9164).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EFU Albany County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1093075. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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