Tornado, Butte
- When
- July 9, 2:45 PM MST to 2:49 PM MST
- Where
- Butte County, 10 mi N of Arco
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Coordinates
- 43.780, -113.300
Tornado in Idaho, July 9, 1996
Sheriff in Butte County received a public report of a tornado that briefly touched down 10 miles north of Arco and then dissipated.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS PIH wrote it up.
Sheriff in Butte County received a public report of a tornado that briefly touched down 10 miles north of Arco and then dissipated.
The radar
The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 90 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:42 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flood in Colorado, July 9, 1996
- Tornado in Texas, July 9, 1996
- Heavy Rain in Texas, July 9, 1996
- Flash Flood in New Mexico, July 9, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Maine, July 9, 1996
- Lightning Strike in New Mexico, July 9, 1996
- Flash Flood in Utah, July 9, 1996
- Tornado and Hail in Connecticut, July 9, 1996
- Damaging Wind in New York, July 9, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Texas, July 9, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Maine, July 9, 1996
- Lightning Strike in New Hampshire, July 9, 1996
More
Every storm in Idaho in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Idaho, 1996Warnings in Idaho, July 1996
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: 5568273.