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EF0 tornado in Uintah County, Utah

Tornado August 6, 2009 · Uintah County, Utah

EF0

Rating

0.5 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

$1K

Damage as recorded

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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.

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 tracked through a small section of Vernal, mostly staying between houses. A number of trees had large limbs broken off and some minor damage occurred to sheds. The tornado was seen by many area residents and photographed by at least three persons.

The wider storm

Strong thunderstorms produced severe weather events across northwest Utah.

Began near Vernal (40.4492, -109.5379).

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 187125. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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