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EF0 tornado in Sublette County, Wyoming

Tornado May 31, 2014 · Sublette County, Wyoming

EF0

Rating

0.3 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 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 touched down briefly on Dollar Lake. The tornado sucked up water from the lake before lifting. No damage was reported.

The wider storm

An upper level disturbance moved across Wyoming ahead of a broad trough across the Pacific Northwest and Great Basin. As the disturbance tracked northeast it helped to trigger thunderstorms over mainly western and northern portions of the state. The main hazard was hail with at least a few reports of one inch diameter stones. In Sublette County, a tornado touched down briefly on Dollar Lake near Green River Lakes before it lifted.

Began near Green River Lakes (43.3400, -110.0059).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 511652. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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