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EF0 tornado in Beaver County, Utah

Tornado August 21, 2012 · Beaver County, Utah

EF0

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

1 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 1 yards (0.00 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

The Beaver County Sheriff reported a tornado along the Utah/Nevada border.

The wider storm

Afternoon thunderstorms continued across Utah in the middle of August. The strongest of these thunderstorms most commonly produced flash flooding in southern Utah, but isolated occurrences of severe winds and a tornado were also observed.

Began near Newhouse (38.2809, -114.0446).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 409087. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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