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EF0 tornado in Torrance County, New Mexico

Tornado June 17, 2019 · Torrance County, New Mexico

EF0
Rating
1.3 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 traveler along U.S. 285 captured footage of a tornado on the ground a couple miles east of Encino. The tornado was over open range land and no damage occurred.

The wider storm

An active spring weather pattern brought another round of severe thunderstorms to eastern New Mexico on June 17, 2019. A weak upper level wave moving slowly east through the region combined with deep atmospheric moisture and strong instability to produce scattered showers and thunderstorms. Thunderstorms first developed along the central mountain chain during the early afternoon before pushing east across the eastern plains through the late evening hours. Large hail was the main impact once again with many spotters reporting quarter to ping pong ball size hail. Very heavy rainfall with these storms also led to flash flooding over parts of Roosevelt County. A tornado was also captured near Encino.

Began near Encino (34.6493, -105.4403).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 819891. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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