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EF0 tornado in Dona Ana County, New Mexico

Tornado April 29, 2007 · Dona Ana County, New Mexico

EF0

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

10 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

A funnel cloud briefly touched down north of Interstate 10 near mile marker 112.

The wider storm

A back door cold front ushered in low level moisture from the plains westaward to the Arizona border. Meanwhile an upper low approached from the southwest. This is a typical severe weather scenario for this area in the spring.

Began near Las Cruces (32.3200, -107.2248).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 27208. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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