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EF0 tornado in Custer County, Idaho

Tornado August 20, 2014 · Custer County, Idaho

EF0

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

5 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 5 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

Multiple photographs of funnel cloud with a brief touch down 2 miles southeast of Mackay.

Began near Mackay (43.8995, -113.5916).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 540594. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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