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EF0 tornado in Baca County, Colorado

Tornado July 13, 2023 · Baca County, Colorado

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

Brief touchdown - only 30 seconds.

The wider storm

The continuations of hail, wind, and tornadoes continues through mid-July as northwesterly upper level flow develops once again over southern Colorado. Anomalous amounts of low level moisture remain over the region due to record breaking precipitation in June and an active early July. Enhanced wind shear due from the upper level northwesterly flow created an environment conducive to severe thunderstorms.

Began near (kspd)springfield Awos (37.1800, -102.7800).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Baca County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1127046. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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