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Tornado in Laramie County, Wyoming

Tornado May 21, 2026 · Laramie County, Wyoming

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Not rated

1.5 mi

Path length

150 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 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

A large dusty landspout was well documented north of Pine Bluffs. The tornado formed directly under the updraft base of a developing thunderstorm after a boundary collision. Images of this tornado suggested this landspout may have been a hybrid type landspout/tornado. This landspout moved east to southeast over a ridge to the north of Pine Bluffs. An area of inflow winds to the west of the vortex kicked up dirt and dust. No damage was reported.

The wider storm

A widespread weather event across the region with snowsqualls in Carbon County and several severe thunderstorm warnings and a tornado warning across western Nebraska.

Began near Pine Bluffs (41.2400, -104.0800).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EFU Laramie County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1337560. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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