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Tornado in Bent County, Colorado

Tornado July 14, 2020 · Bent County, Colorado

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Not rated

2.3 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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

Multiple spotters and public reported a tornado moving through Bent County towards the City of Las Animas. No damage reported.

The wider storm

During the afternoon hours of July 14th, scattered thunderstorms, including a few supercells, developed across eastern El Paso County. As this activity shifted eastward they began to intensify and grow upscale into a larger thunderstorm complex. A series of supercells moved through Bent, Prowers, and Baca Counties producing a large non-damaging tornado, large hail, and damaging wind gusts.

Began near Las Animas (38.0300, -103.2600).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 959418. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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