Tornado, Bingham
- When
- February 14, 4:15 PM MST to 4:25 PM MST
- Where
- Bingham County, 1 mi S of Shelley
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 6 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Property damage
- $350,000
- Reported by
- NWS STORM SURVEY
- Coordinates
- 43.350, -112.117
Tornadoes in Idaho, February 14, 2000
This tornado's track started in Bingham county where it destroyed a garage in Shelley. The Shelley High School sustained roof damage.
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
- $500,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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.
This tornado's track started in Bingham county where it destroyed a garage in Shelley. The Shelley High School sustained roof damage. Along the tornado's path, about 10 homes sustained roof damage, 6 center pivot and 12 wheel line irrigation systems sustained damage or were destroyed. The tornado then moved into Bonneville county where a house lost its roof in Ammon. Nearby, several large, metal framed, electric transmission poles were snapped.
The radar
The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 54 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:16 UTC.
Event by event
2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Bonneville
- When
- February 14, 4:25 PM MST to 4:30 PM MST
- Where
- Bonneville County, Cotton
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 6 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Property damage
- $150,000
- Reported by
- NWS STORM SURVEY
- Coordinates
- 43.417, -112.067
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.
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More
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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: 5133079, 5133080.