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EF0 tornado in Jefferson County, Idaho

Tornado May 31, 2018 · Jefferson County, Idaho

EF0

Rating

15.0 mi

Whole path

10 yd

Path width

$300

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Bingham County → Jefferson County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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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

A spotter witnessed a rope tornado 15 miles south southwest of Mud Lake that quickly dissipated.

The wider storm

Large hail, high winds, tornadoes and heavy rain all occurred in southeast Idaho on the afternoon of the 31st. Much of it occurred with one supercell which tracked northeast throughout the region.

Began near Monteview (43.6695, -112.5300).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 760342. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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