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EF0 tornado in Union County, New Mexico

Tornado August 13, 2016 · Union County, New Mexico

EF0
Rating
0.0 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

Brief rope tornado touched down on a distant mesa near Capulin Volcano National Monument.

The wider storm

A back door cold front surged southwest across New Mexico and interacted with a very rich plume of monsoon moisture surging northward into the state. A strong thunderstorm around Ojo Encino produced a brief landspout tornado. This tornado captured lots of attention at a nearby baseball field. Another tornado was reported near Capulin on a distant mesa. No damage was reported from either storm. A funnel cloud was also spotted near Ocate. The most impactful thunderstorm of the day occurred along Interstate 40 near San Fidel. Several inches of penny size hail accumulated on the interstate.

Began near Capulin (36.7707, -103.9517).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 McKinley County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 643398. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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