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EF0 tornado in Twin Falls County, Idaho

Tornado July 22, 2008 · Twin Falls County, Idaho

EF0

Rating

1.0 mi

Path length

25 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.

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

An eyewitness reported a tornado on the ground for 30 seconds about 10 miles south of Twin Falls, or 4 miles south of the Twin Falls Airport.

The wider storm

Severe weather developed ahead of a low moving into Oregon as a moist, southerly flow provided the fuel for wildfire threat associated with the copious lightning activity and flash flood, high wind and large hail theats across Southeast Oregon and Southeast Idaho.

Began near (twf)twin Falls Arpt (42.4200, -114.4600).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 126786. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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