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EF0 tornado in Wayne County, Utah

Tornado October 6, 2010 · Wayne County, Utah

EF0

Rating

1.2 mi

Path length

10 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 10 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

An EF0 tornado touched down west of Canyonlands National Park, at the south end of Robbers Roost Flat. Approximately 30 juniper trees were either snapped or uprooted by the tornado. No monetary damage occurred as the tornado occurred in a rural area and no trees fell on the nearby dirt road, so no cleanup was necessary.

The wider storm

With a nearly stationary upper level low over California, large amounts of moisture spread into Utah. This allowed numerous showers and thunderstorms to develop across the state, with severe thunderstorms developing primarily across southern and eastern Utah, and widespread flooding occurring across southern Utah.

Began near (4hv)hanksville (38.2800, -110.2800).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 266009. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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