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EF0 tornado in Bear Lake County, Idaho

Tornado July 7, 2013 · Bear Lake County, Idaho

EF0

Rating

1.0 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

Tornado spotted by public who took photograph of tornado 3 miles west southwest of Wardboro in between Paris and Dingle. No damage reported as tornado occurred in open area. Tornado was on the ground at approximately 7:30 pm MDT.

The wider storm

Flash flooding occurred in Pocatello with a foot of water at the Center Street overpass and over 8 inches of water flooding intersections north of Center Street on the Idaho State Campus. A tornado occurred 3 miles west southwest of Wardboro in Bear Lake County. Thunderstorm damage occurred in Cassia County as well.

Began near Wardboro (42.2334, -111.3242).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 469085. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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