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1950-1980

**Parts of this page will look weird until I can redo the CHNC parts (citations and images), which might be a bit**

Date: July 3, 1957

Time: 4:40pm

Location: Meeker

F??

INFO:

Date: May 5, 1964

Time: 12pm

Location: Near Basalt

INFO: TBD

Credit: The Aspen Times (Aspen, CO), (May 8, 1964). Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection. Colorado State Library.

Date: September 5, 1970

Time: 5:30pm

Location: West of Cortez

F1

INFO:

Date: July 13, 1973

Time: 

Location: North of Craig

F??

INFO: TBD

Credit: The Daily Press (, CO.), July , 1973. Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection. Colorado State Library.

Date: April 6, 1974

Time: 1:35pm

Location: North of Eagle

F1

INFO:

Date: May 19, 1974

Time:

Location: Montrose

EF: ??

INFO: Either a windstorm or a tornado went through Montrose, damaging the Star Drive In Theater movie screen. The Colorado Sun calls it a tornado, but the Denver Post calls it a windstorm. The official NOAA event description calls it a windstorm

Date: June 20th, 1975

Time: 1:30pm

Location: Redstone

F2

INFO: Alleged tornado touched down on McClure Pass and traveled into Redstone. I personally am not too sure about this and can't confirm this.

Credit: NWS and The Roaring Fork Valley Journal (Carbondale, CO), June TBD, 1975. CHNC. CSL.

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