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EF0 tornado in Taos County, New Mexico

Tornado September 1, 2018 · Taos County, New Mexico

EF0

Rating

0.3 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 20 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 Facebook user posted a video of a landspout tornado near Ute Mountain in Taos County.

The wider storm

A landspout tornado was captured by an observer from the Wild Rivers Recreation Area in Taos County. The landspout developed near Ute Mountain around 215 pm and was visible for about 15 minutes before dissipating. Scattered showers and thunderstorms across eastern New Mexico also resulted in an active afternoon of heavy rainfall, strong winds, and intense lightning. The Cannon AFB reported a peak wind gust up to 64 mph from thunderstorm outflow.

Began near Sunshine Valley (36.9100, -105.6400).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 771954. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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