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NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database

Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Moorcroft, WY

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 Moorcroft, Wyoming since records began in 1851. Since 1950, 30 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
30

within 25 mi, since 1950

EF3 or stronger
0

no recorded deaths

Tornadoes within 25 miles of Moorcroft

By decade

  • 2020s1
  • 2010s6
  • 2000s1
  • 1990s1
  • 1980s6
  • 1970s9
  • 1960s2
  • 1950s4
Strongest tornadoes near Moorcroft, Wyoming
DateRatingDistancePathKilled / injured
Jun 13, 2014EF225 mi16.51 mi0 / 1
May 31, 1984F211 mi0.5 mi0 / 0
Jun 25, 1975F217 mi16.3 mi0 / 1
May 18, 1961F217 mi0.1 mi0 / 0
Jun 25, 1959F224 mi1 mi0 / 0
Aug 19, 2024EF123 mi2.51 mi0 / 0
Jun 25, 2019EF124 mi5.37 mi0 / 0
Jun 25, 2019EF124 mi5.28 mi0 / 0
Aug 7, 2016EF123 mi1.52 mi0 / 0
Jun 25, 2014EF117 mi5.92 mi0 / 0
Aug 19, 1993F124 mi0.5 mi0 / 0
Jul 24, 1982F113 mi1 mi0 / 0

The strongest 12 of 30, 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 Moorcroft 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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