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EF0 tornado in Mora County, New Mexico

Tornado August 9, 2017 · Mora County, New Mexico

EF0
Rating
0.3 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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 KRQE viewer sent in a picture of a small tornado southeast of Wagon Mound. No damage was reported.

The wider storm

Deep moisture and instability over eastern New Mexico combined with northwest flow aloft to produce scattered strong to severe thunderstorms over the east-central and northeast plains. Several clusters of thunderstorms developed by mid afternoon along the east slopes of the central mountain chain then moved quickly southeastward. A severe thunderstorm that developed over Las Vegas produced damaging baseball size hail mainly over the southeastern quadrant of town. Severe damage was reported to many vehicles. Several other storms that moved across Harding, Mora, and San Miguel counties produced golf ball to baseball size hail. Funnel clouds also accompanied the storms in Las Vegas and near Grenville. Heavy rainfall amounts up to nearly three inches were reported with several storms. A pilot flying from Texas to New Mexico fatally crashed near Trujillo in San Miguel County during the active weather.

Began near Wagon Mound (35.8595, -104.6608).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 713984. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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