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Tornado in San Juan County, Utah

Tornado July 20, 2024 · San Juan County, Utah

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Not rated

0.1 mi

Path length

10 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

One of several thunderstorms across Southeast Utah on the afternoon of July 20th began to rotate and produced a landspout tornado near Verdure in San Juan County, UT, along US Highway 191. This landspout was reported to the Grand Junction NWS office by a trained spotter, and this report was later confirmed by images and video provided by a media partner in the Salt Lake City NWS office's area.

The wider storm

A push of drier air was dropping into eastern Utah and western Colorado from the north on the afternoon of the 20th. As dry air filtered into the northern half of the region, deeper moisture remained entrenched over the southern half. With better moisture and instability in this area, scattered to widespread showers and thunderstorms formed over the higher terrain and drifted out over adjacent valleys. One of these storms encountered a source of modest surface vorticity, and began to weakly rotate, eventually producing a landspout tornado.

Began near Verdure (37.7800, -109.3500).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1206662. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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