EF0 Tornado — San Juan, New Mexico

2020-03-21 · near (fmn)farmington Airport, San Juan, New Mexico

Event narrative

A brief landspout tornado touched down over the NAPI farm complex south of Bloomfield, NM. Time and location are estimated from imagery posted to Twitter.

Wider weather episode

An upper level trough to the west of New Mexico with sufficient moisture and instability spreading into the Four Corners area allowed a few showers and thunderstorms to develop during the afternoon of March 21, 2020. One of these thunderstorms produced a brief landspout tornado over the Navajo Agricultural Product Industry farmland complex south of Bloomfield, NM. No damage was observed over rural farmland from this brief storm.

View location on OpenStreetMap → (36.6288, -108.2774)

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 873392. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.