EF0 tornado in San Miguel County, New Mexico

Tornado October 1, 2023 · San Miguel County, New Mexico

EF0

Rating

1.3 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$100K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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

Damage assessment conducted by San Miguel Emergency Management discovered damage to a roof of one house, an overturned chicken coop near the damaged house, and power poles downed between Escondido Lane and Wyatt Dr. intersecting County Road A1.

The wider storm

Continued moist southerly flow across eastern NM ahead of a deep storm system resulted in the development of more scattered showers and storms across eastern NM. Some of these storms became severe, with one of these storms producing a tornado near Sapello in northwest San Miguel County.

Began near Manuelitas (35.7900, -105.2700).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1129364. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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