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Tornado in Goshen County, Wyoming

Tornado June 20, 2024 · Goshen County, Wyoming

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Not rated

1.7 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

A brief tornado was observed in rural Goshen County by numerous storm spotters

and emergency management personnel. Due to the rural nature of this tornado, only

limited damage to fencing was found, as well as scattered plant debris. Review of

video and photo sequences along with radar time-matching indicate that this tornado

likely began as a landspout, but quickly gained mesocyclonic characteristics as it

interacted with the updraft base, condensed a funnel, and slowed/occluded into the

storm. Regardless, without any damage of note this tornado will be recorded as EF-U.

The wider storm

An intense supercell thunderstorm originated near Chugwater, Wyoming, during the early to mid afternoon hours on 6/20, tracking across southern Platte and Goshen counties through approximately 3:00 PM MDT before moving into the western Nebraska Panhandle. Storm chasers reported extremely large and destructive hail up to 4.5 inches in diameter along with wind gusts in excess of 70 MPH, noting that they had never seen that large of hail coinciding with such intense winds.

Began near Fonda (41.8210, -104.3980).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1182130. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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