Tornado, Power
- When
- June 13, 7:00 PM MST to 7:15 PM MST
- Where
- Power County, American Falls to 10 mi WNW of American Falls
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Coordinates
- 42.830, -113.020
Tornado in Idaho, June 13, 1996
A Power County Sheriff deputy reported a tornado over the lava fields about 10 miles WNW of American Falls. No roads or structures were near the tornado.
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.
A Power County Sheriff deputy reported a tornado over the lava fields about 10 miles WNW of American Falls. No roads or structures were near the tornado.
The radar
The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 41 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:01 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
- Lightning Strike in Mississippi, June 13, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, June 13, 1996
- Flash Flood in Massachusetts, June 13, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, June 13, 1996
- Flash Flood in Vermont, June 13, 1996
- Flash Flood in New York, June 13, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Texas, June 13, 1996
- Hail in South Dakota, June 13, 1996
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, June 13, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Texas, June 13, 1996
- Flash Flood in Ohio, June 13, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, June 13, 1996
More
Every storm in Idaho in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Idaho, 1996Warnings in Idaho, June 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: 5551651.