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NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database

Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Franktown, CO

Every tropical system within 75 miles since 1851 and every tornado within 25 miles since 1950.

No tropical storm or hurricane has passed within 75 miles of Franktown, Colorado since records began in 1851. Since 1950, 154 tornadoes have touched down within 25 miles, 0 of them rated EF3 or stronger.

Hurricanes
0

within 75 mi, since 1851

Tropical storms
0

below hurricane strength

Tornadoes
154

within 25 mi, since 1950

EF3 or stronger
0

no recorded deaths

Tornadoes within 25 miles of Franktown

By decade

  • 2020s3
  • 2010s18
  • 2000s29
  • 1990s24
  • 1980s37
  • 1970s21
  • 1960s17
  • 1950s5
Strongest tornadoes near Franktown, Colorado
DateRatingDistancePathKilled / injured
Jun 15, 2009EF29 mi4 mi0 / 0
Jul 19, 1985F214 mi0.5 mi0 / 0
Jun 4, 1983F28 mi8 mi0 / 0
May 17, 1978F219 mi0.5 mi0 / 0
Jun 13, 1977F220 mi1 mi0 / 0
May 20, 1961F28 mi2 mi0 / 2
Jun 22, 2023EF116 mi6.3 mi0 / 0
Jul 27, 2018EF18 mi1.17 mi0 / 0
Jul 21, 2015EF121 mi0.29 mi0 / 0
Jun 5, 2015EF113 mi0.59 mi0 / 0
Jun 8, 2014EF124 mi0.25 mi0 / 1
Jun 8, 2014EF124 mi0.25 mi0 / 0

The strongest 12 of 154, by rating and then by deaths. Ratings before February 2007 are on the original Fujita scale.

How to read this page

A storm is listed when the centre of its track passed within 75 miles of Franktown while it was at least a tropical storm, which is the reach of damaging wind and rain for a typical hurricane. Being on the list does not mean the city took a direct hit; the "closest" column says how near the centre came. Tornadoes are counted when any part of the path came within 25 miles.

Tornado records before the 1990s are thinner, because weak tornadoes in open country often went unreported before Doppler radar and mobile phones. A rise in the decade counts is mostly better reporting, not a change in the weather.

Tracks come from the National Hurricane Center's HURDAT2 database, tornadoes from the Storm Prediction Center's database. Both are the official federal records and both are revised as old storms are re-analysed.

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