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F1 tornado in Arapahoe County, Colorado

Tornado August 29, 2002 · Arapahoe County, Colorado

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

Injury

$6.0M

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 F1 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F1 meant moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken; the scale paired it with winds of 73–112 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

The second tornado, associated with the storm, touched down in a subdivision that was under construction at Gartrell and Arapahoe Road. Four large condominiums under construction were destroyed. The most heavily damaged portions of the structures had not been sheet rocked. Adjacent sections, where the walls were in place, were not destroyed. A man suffered four broken ribs and several cuts and bruises when the trailer he sought shelter in, was flipped three times and torn apart by the tornado.

Began near (apa)englwood Arapah (39.5667, -104.7833).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F0 Douglas County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5313313. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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