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EF0 tornado in Bingham County, Idaho

Tornado April 7, 2018 · Bingham County, Idaho

EF0

Rating

0.5 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

Tumbleweeds and tree limbs lifted into the air.

The wider storm

A powerful storm created Funnel clouds, a tornado and extremely large hail the early evening of April 7th. Hail up to two inches in the Idaho Falls area and funnel clouds and a touchdown in Bingham County.

Began near Taber (43.3200, -112.5703).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 754865. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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