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EF0 tornado in Montezuma County, Colorado

Tornado July 18, 2011 · Montezuma County, Colorado

EF0

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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 several people as it moved over open country. The tornado was located just over a mile west of Highway 160. Some cottonwood trees had limbs broken off.

The wider storm

An embedded disturbance within a southerly flow of subtropical moisture across the region produced areas of heavy rainfall and isolated severe thunderstorms in portions of western Colorado.

Began near Towaoc (37.2205, -108.7043).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 331280. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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