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EF0 tornado in Apache County, Arizona

Tornado September 13, 2022 · Apache County, Arizona

EF0

Rating

7.7 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 tornado formed and traveled along the leading edge of a thunderstorm outflow boundary.

The wider storm

A trough just to the west of Arizona and southerly flow aloft helped produce scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms. Some storms produced large hail, funnel clouds, and small tornadoes.

Began near Dinnehotso (36.8400, -109.8500).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF0 Navajo County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1055638. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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