Home / Idaho / Owyhee

EF0 tornado in Owyhee County, Idaho

Tornado May 27, 2022 · Owyhee County, Idaho

EF0

Rating

3.8 mi

Path length

35 yd

Path width

EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 35 yards (0.02 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

The employee tracked a tornado for a few minutes and captured video evidence of circulation to the ground with debris and dust rotating around a column of air. The employee estimated tornado wind speed to be around 65-75 mph. After the event, they found fragile brush laying flat in one direction.

The wider storm

An upper level low pressure system brought convective storms on Friday, especially in southeast Oregon and near the Idaho-Oregon border.

Began near Givens Hot Spgs (43.4121, -116.7564).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1022155. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

Tornadoes near your address

See every tornado that passed near a place you know, measured to its path.