Tornado in Idaho, May 29, 1994

Name: Tornado in Idaho, May 29, 1994
Start: 1994-05-29T14:25
End: 1994-05-29T14:25
Location: Idaho

May 29, 1994 · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Bonner

When: May 29, 2:25 PM MST
Where: Bonner County
Rating: F1
Path length: 0.1 mi
Path width: 20 yd
Coordinates: 48.550, -116.780

Thunderstorms in northern Idaho produced heavy rains, small hail, and a short-lived tornado. The tornado touched down just south of Priest Lake, along State Highway 57, 52 miles north of Coeur d'Alene. National Weather Service personnel investigated the damaged area, and determined the event to be a small F1 tornado. The dimensions of the path were estimated during this investigation. The investigation also revealed that several local residents witnessed the tornado. The tornado touched down in a sparsely populated area, and produced no significant damage. It did, however, uproot about 15 trees. Several of these trees ranged from 20 to 30 inches in diameter.

What these are

Tornado: A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Idaho in 1994 Every state in 1994 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Idaho, 1994 Warnings in Idaho, May 1994

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10320880.