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EF0 tornado in Santa Fe County, New Mexico

Tornado July 7, 2015 · Santa Fe County, New Mexico

EF0
Rating
0.2 mi
Path length
25 yd
Path width
1
Injury
$100K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 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

A 30' x 20' metal hay barn was tossed a quarter mile and crashed into a nearby home. Flying glass injured a woman in the home. Several folks reported a brief tornado on the ground.

The wider storm

Monsoon moisture firmly in place over New Mexico focused another round of very heavy rainfall and severe thunderstorms. Storms with torrential rainfall and strong winds erupted over the state. A storm that developed around Shiprock moved northeast over La Plata and produced flash flooding along U.S. 170. Law enforcement reported that 12 inches of water was flowing over the roadway. A thunderstorm that moved southeast along two colliding outflow boundaries near Edgewood produced a brief tornado. A metal barn for storing hay was tossed a quarter mile and slammed into a house where a woman was injured by flying glass. This same storm also produced quarter size hail.

Began near Edgewood (35.0736, -106.1783).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 577733. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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