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Tornado in Las Animas County, Colorado

Tornado July 8, 2023 · Las Animas County, Colorado

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Not rated

0.5 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 20 yards (0.01 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. 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 tornado reported by a storm chaser 15 miles northeast of Kim.

The wider storm

Residual moisture from an incredibly anomalously wet June continues to moisten the lower levels aiding in ample amounts of instability. The northwest flow pattern created a lot of shear, which led to prolonged 3 day severe weather event over adjacent and eastern plains of southern Colorado.

Began near Kim (37.4217, -103.2605).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EFU Kiowa County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1126200. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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