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Tornado in San Juan County, Utah

Tornado June 21, 2024 · San Juan County, Utah

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Not rated

0.5 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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

Multiple photos and videos on social media from multiple angles indicated a brief spin up of a landspout on Highway 191 near Hole N The Rock, or about 16 miles south of Moab, UT. No damage was reported.

The wider storm

Very deep tropical moisture associated with the remnants of Tropical Storm Alberto combined with monsoonal moisture was forced through eastern Utah and western Colorado due to a large high pressure ridge over the Central U.S. and a deep low pressure trough over the Great Basin. This deep moisture combined with strong instability and shear to produce widespread severe weather across eastern Utah and western Colorado with thunderstorms producing severe wind gusts, large hail and heavy rain which resulted in flash flooding and debris flows. One particular storm even produced a landspout tornado in southeast Utah. Frequent lightning also resulted in lightning damage in Montrose, Colorado.

Began near La Sal Jct (38.3800, -109.4600).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1198124. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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