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EF0 tornado in Spokane County, Washington

Tornado July 22, 2016 · Spokane County, Washington

EF0
Rating
0.2 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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

An NWS employee reported debris from a tornado 2 miles East Northeast of Airway Heights, WA. The employee made video footage of the rotating tornado available on social media.

The wider storm

Wet thunderstorms moving to the north and northeast at 20 mph produced heavy rainfall over parts of the East Slopes and North Cascades including parts of the Okanogan Valley. The resulting heavy rainfall produced some debris flows and Flash floods near Methow, Brewster and Carlton in Okanogan County of Washington. Later on in the day this same disturbance produced more severe thunderstorms with two tornadoes occurring, one near Mould, WA and a second near Airway Heights, WA along with a number of fallen trees in the Spokane area.

Began near Airway Hgts (47.6611, -117.5603).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF0 Douglas County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 638333. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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