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Tornado in McKinley County, New Mexico

Tornado May 13, 2023 · McKinley County, New Mexico

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Not rated

0.5 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 20 yards (0.01 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

Not rated. NOAA lists no rating for this tornado. Ratings come from surveying damage, and the National Weather Service now records “EFU” (unknown) when a tornado hit nothing a survey team could rate.

What the National Weather Service wrote

The acting fire chief of McKinley County sent a video of a brief landspout tornado near Gallup. It caused no damage.

The wider storm

A strong backdoor cold front surged through the gaps of the central mountain chain during the very early morning of May 13, 2023. High winds produced repeated gusts to 60 mph at the Albuquerque Sunport. A tree was blown down in an Albuquerque neighborhood. Meanwhile, an unrelated brief landspout tornado was reported near Gallup by the acting fire chief of McKinley County. The landspout caused no damage.

Began near Rehoboth (35.5500, -108.6700).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1092360. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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