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EF0 tornado in Lewis County, Idaho

Tornado October 7, 2010 · Lewis County, Idaho

EF0

Rating

0.4 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 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 spotted for a brief period by the public just south of New Hope Road near Lawyer Canyon approximately six miles southeast of Craigmont. The tornado then moved into Idaho County (see Storm Data for Idaho).

The wider storm

A tornado briefly touched down near the Lewis and Clearwater county line south of Craigmont. Local law enforcement relayed a message of a tornado witnessed by the public just south of New Hope Road near Lawyer Canyon. No damage was observed from the tornado.

Began near Harris Siding (46.1896, -116.3605).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 263173. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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