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F3 tornado in Prowers County, Colorado

Tornado May 29, 2001 · Prowers County, Colorado

Rating

3.0 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$150K

Damage as recorded

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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.

What F3 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F3 meant severe damage: whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned; the scale paired it with winds of 158–206 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Thunderstorms spawned six brief tornadoes and an F3 tornado within a three mile radius of the Lamar Municipal Airport between 1049 MST and 1231 MST just west of Lamar. The F3 tornado, which showed supercellular characteristics, completely destroyed a modular home and five vehicles in its vicinity, and damaged two other homes nearby. Eleven power poles were destroyed as well.

Began near Lamar (38.0833, -102.6667).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

8 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

F0 Kiowa County F0 El Paso County F0 Prowers County F0 Prowers County F0 Prowers County F0 Prowers County F0 Prowers County F0 Prowers County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5248643. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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