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EF0 tornado in Grant County, New Mexico

Tornado October 7, 2015 · Grant County, New Mexico

EF0

Rating

1.7 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

Landspout tornado reported just south of Separ.

The wider storm

An upper low was moving into southeast Arizona with plenty of wind shear across the area ahead of this system. Dew points remained in the mid 40s to lower 50s with decent instability across the region. Ping pong ball hail and even a landspout tornado were reported.

Began near Separ (32.1400, -108.4200).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 605128. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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