Tornado in Idaho, July 10, 1998

Name: Tornado in Idaho, July 10, 1998
Start: 1998-07-10T16:00
End: 1998-07-10T16:00
Location: Idaho

July 10, 1998 · NWS BOI · 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: 1
Property damage: $30,000
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.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Owyhee

When: July 10, 4:00 PM MST
Where: Owyhee County, Oreana
Rating: F0
Path length: 0.2 mi
Path width: 50 yd
Injuries: 1 direct, 0 indirect
Property damage: $30,000
Reported by: NWS STORM SURVEY
Coordinates: 43.050, -116.380

During the evening of July 10th a manufactured home was flipped over in the town of Oreana. One man inside the home was slightly injured. A NWS storm survey team determined that the damage was caused by an F0 tornado. The tornado was short lived and did no other significant damage.

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 1998 Every state in 1998 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Idaho, 1998 Warnings in Idaho, July 1998

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: 5668929.