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EF0 tornado in Uintah County, Utah

Tornado August 6, 2009 · Uintah County, Utah

EF0

Rating

2.2 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

$40K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 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

A tornado was observed by a number of people in the Pelican Lake area. The tornado was first seen as it came up over a hill just west of Pelican Lake. The tornado then traveled across Pelican Lake and turned white as it pick up water off the lake. On the east shore of the lake, the tornado tore up some trees and flipped over a trailer used for living quarters at a man camp. Nobody was in the trailer at the time of the event.

The wider storm

Strong thunderstorms produced severe weather events across northwest Utah.

Began near Leota (40.1873, -109.7012).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF0 Uintah County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 187123. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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