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EF0 tornado in Mora County, New Mexico

Tornado June 7, 2022 · Mora County, New Mexico

EF0
Rating
0.2 mi
Path length
10 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 10 yards (0.01 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A storm chaser reported a brief, weak landspout tornado over open rangeland near Maes. No damage was reported.

The wider storm

A backdoor cold front that moved through eastern New Mexico early on June 6, 2022, set the stage for a round of severe thunderstorms across northeast and east central New Mexico as it ushered it beneficial low-level moisture. With plentiful instability and wind shear across this area, the atmosphere quickly became supportive of strong to severe thunderstorms. Thunderstorms developed first across the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and then tracked in an easterly direction onto the plains where they strengthened. The strongest thunderstorm of the day started near Wagon Mound and then made a right turn before tracking southeastward through Harding, San Miguel, and Quay counties. When the thunderstorm was southwest of Roy, it developed a strong mesocyclone. While no mesocyclonic tornado was observed, a brief and weak landspout was. This thunderstorm's main hazard then was very large hail with hail up to baseball size reported near Bell Ranch.

Began near Wagon Mound (35.8300, -104.4700).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1019306. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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