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EF0 tornado in Sandoval County, New Mexico

Tornado July 23, 2021 · Sandoval County, New Mexico

EF0
Rating
0.0 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 seen near Idalia Road and Highway 528 in Rio Rancho. No damages were reported.

The wider storm

A slow-moving low pressure system continued to track westward across southern New Mexico on July 23, 2021, as an area of high pressure remained centered over the Four Corners. An abundant amount of atmospheric moisture remained in place across central and western New Mexico, and with needed lift from the low pressure system, numerous thunderstorms impacted the area. Soils across western New Mexico were saturated from the previous day's convection which exacerbated flash flooding conditions as torrential rainfall fell across the area. Rainfall estimates of two to four inches prompted numerous Flash Flood Warnings across western and central New Mexico. Severe weather was also a concern with baseball size hail reported in Torrance County and a landspout tornado even reported on the westside of Albuquerque.

Began near Bernalillo (35.3000, -106.5800).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 962290. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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