EF1 tornado in Converse County, Wyoming
Tornado July 28, 2018 · Converse County, Wyoming
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.
What the National Weather Service wrote
The second tornado formed as the first tornado was lifting to the west, touching down near the West Fork of La Bonte Creek and Esterbrook Road. The tornado quickly strengthened to EF1 intensity as it moved along La Bonte Creek passing near a ranch house off Esterbrook Road. Most of the damage was to trees that were snapped mid trunk in a 150 yard path. The tornado lifted as it moved east of La Bonte Creek. The NWS survey team lost track of the tornado as it moved southeast into open country, so it is possible that track extended farther than the survey results indicated. The survey team also continued to investigate reports of damage at Esterbrook Campground to the southeast, to see if this damage was associated with the same tornado. Start and end times and locations and times of the tornado were estimated from eyewitness accounts and radar data.
The wider storm
Thunderstorms produced large hail, damaging winds and a couple tornadoes over portions of Converse and Platte counties.
Began near Irvine (42.5681, -105.4325).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
2 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 783126. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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