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EF0 tornado in Torrance County, New Mexico

Tornado June 2, 2019 · Torrance County, New Mexico

EF0
Rating
4.2 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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

Tornado on the ground over open range land between Cedarvale and Duran.

The wider storm

The extended stretch of severe weather continued to impact eastern New Mexico on June 2, 2019 as more dryline thunderstorms shifted northeast through the region. A slow-moving upper level storm system to the west of New Mexico continued to pump deep moisture into the region with strong afternoon heating and instability leading to scattered to numerous showers and storms. Thunderstorms first developed within the Rio Grande Valley and nearby higher terrain during the early afternoon before shifting onto the high plains of eastern New Mexico. A cluster of thunderstorms that developed near Los Lunas moved northeast across the east mountain communities into the Santa Fe area with hail up to the size of golf balls. Large hail, strong winds, very heavy rainfall, and even a tornado were reported with these storms as they progressed into eastern New Mexico through the early evening hours.

Began near Pinos Wells (34.4808, -105.5590).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 817696. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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