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EF0 tornado in Twin Falls County, Idaho

Tornado May 7, 2019 · Twin Falls County, Idaho

EF0

Rating

1.5 mi

Path length

10 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 10 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 video was posted on Facebook. Downed trees were reported at a farm.

The wider storm

An upper level trough moved south across the area kicking off thunderstorms in South Central Idaho. Strong winds including a tornado and funnel clouds were associated with the storms.

Began near Kimberly (42.4498, -114.4151).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 819453. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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