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EF0 tornado in McKinley County, New Mexico

Tornado May 30, 2019 · McKinley County, New Mexico

EF0
Rating
0.4 mi
Path length
30 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 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 brief landspout tornado was observed 15 miles east-southeast of Crownpoint.

The wider storm

Low level moisture moved back westward into eastern New Mexico on May 30, 2019 as another upper level trough took shape over the western United States. Sufficient mid level moisture and instability ahead of this wave within central New Mexico generated a few thunderstorms with strong outflow winds and even a brief landspout tornado near Crownpoint. The main focus for severe thunderstorms was over eastern New Mexico where high winds impacted the area around Tucumcari and especially Dexter where some wind damage was reported.

Began near Hospah (35.6000, -107.9000).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 817490. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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