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EF0 tornado in Nye County, Nevada

Tornado May 22, 2019 · Nye County, Nevada

EF0

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 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 landspout tornado touched down in an open field and did no damage.

The wider storm

An unseasonably deep low pressure area sat over the West Coast for days, with individual storm systems rotating through it. This brought a few thunderstorms to southern Nevada.

Began near Pahrump (36.2320, -116.0175).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 814729. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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