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EF0 tornado in Hot Springs County, Wyoming

Tornado June 3, 2014 · Hot Springs County, Wyoming

EF0

Rating

2.2 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 rancher north of Anchor Reservoir observed a brief tornado near Putney Flat in the Owl Creek drainage. The tornado remained over open country and did no damage.

The wider storm

Outflow from one thunderstorm merged with the leading edge of another thunderstorm over western Hot Springs County. This merger induced new updraft development and spawned a brief tornado over open country.

Began near Dickie (43.7665, -108.8642).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 517093. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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