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EF0 tornado in Fallon County, Montana

Tornado July 6, 2016 · Fallon County, Montana

EF0

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

25 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

Several people reported a funnel cloud form and touchdown with obvious debris/dust/dirt picked up on top of a hill.

The wider storm

A strong upper level short wave resulted in large-scale forcing across the eastern portions of the Billings Forecast Area. This resulted in severe thunderstorms across Custer and Fallon Counties during the afternoon of the 6th. Large hail, funnel clouds and a brief tornado were reported with a few of these thunderstorms.

Began near Webster (46.0900, -104.3600).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 643759. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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