Tornadoes · United States · Arizona · 2022

EF0 tornado, Angell, Arizona, June 23, 2022

This EF0 tornado ran 0.1 miles across Coconino County on June 23, 2022, touching down at 2:00 PM MST and reaching 10 yards wide. It killed nobody.

The rating scale

Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Enhanced Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.

  1. EF065 to 85 mphthis tornado

    Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.

  2. EF186 to 110 mph

    Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.

  3. EF2111 to 135 mph

    Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.

  4. EF3136 to 165 mph

    Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.

  5. EF4166 to 200 mph

    Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.

  6. EF5over 200 mph

    Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.

  7. Unrated

    The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

The record

Rating
EF0
Date
June 23, 2022
Touchdown
2:00 PM MST (21:00 UTC)
Lifted
2:15 PM MST (21:15 UTC)
On the ground
15 minutes
Path length
0.1 miles (0.2 km)
Path width
10 yards (9 m)
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
County
Coconino County
Touchdown point
35.160, -111.270
Lift-off point
35.160, -111.270
Record number
2206231500-01

What the Weather Service recorded

A land spout was seen east of Winona near Twin Arrows for about 15 minutes.

A land spout was reported near Interstate 40 east of Winona near The Twin Arrows Trading Post. It persisted for 10-15 minutes. Pictures were posted on social media.

From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.

The warnings

No tornado warning for this county appears in the archive as in force at the moment the tornado touched down.

Issued (UTC)ExpiredProductOffice
21:12 UTC00:00 UTCFlood AdvisoryFGZ
00:29 UTC01:15 UTCSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZ

Every warning and watch covering the touchdown point that day, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service products. Lead time is measured from the issue of the warning in force to the touchdown time in the database, both of which were recorded to the minute by different people.

The forecast that day

The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a General Thunderstorms Risk. The outlook in force was issued at 20:00 UTC.

SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.

The air that afternoon

The radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.

Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), 12:00Z

9.0 hours before the tornado, 49 km from the path. June 23, 2022.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Flgstf/Belemont, AZ at 12:00Z on 2022-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel lifted from the surface. Mixed-layer CAPE 0 joules per kilogram, CIN -5775, lifted condensation level 4028 meters above ground. Wind barbs in knots down the right edge.LCL10008507005003002001001 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed. The warm shading is its CAPE, the cool shading the inhibition it has to break through.
HodographHodograph, Flgstf/Belemont, AZ at 12:00Z on 2022-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers as a curve, rings every 10 meters per second labeled in knots. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 85 square meters per square second, 0 to 6 km bulk shear 32 knots.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km. RM and LM are the right and left moving storms Bunkers' method gives; the shaded area is the 0 to 1 km storm-relative helicity.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5775 J/kg
Surface CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
4028 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
172 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0
0-3 km lapse rate
-1.5 K/km

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), 00:00Z

3.0 hours after it, 49 km from the path. June 24, 2022.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Flgstf/Belemont, AZ at 00:00Z on 2022-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel lifted from the surface. Mixed-layer CAPE 254 joules per kilogram, CIN -73, lifted condensation level 3086 meters above ground. Wind barbs in knots down the right edge.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed. The warm shading is its CAPE, the cool shading the inhibition it has to break through.
HodographHodograph, Flgstf/Belemont, AZ at 00:00Z on 2022-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers as a curve, rings every 10 meters per second labeled in knots. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 36 square meters per square second, 0 to 6 km bulk shear 38 knots.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km. RM and LM are the right and left moving storms Bunkers' method gives; the shaded area is the 0 to 1 km storm-relative helicity.
Mixed-layer CAPE
254 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-73 J/kg
Surface CAPE
986 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3086 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
99 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3
0-3 km lapse rate
3.3 K/km

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The radar

The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 65 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 20:59 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track

Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.

What was reported nearby

Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.

Time (UTC)ReportWhereCountyRemark
21:00 UTCFUNNEL CLOUDTwin ArrowsCoconino, AZPOTENTIAL LANDSPOUT SPOTTED NEAR I-40 EAST OF WINONA NEAR THE TWIN ARROWS TRADING POST. PERSISTED FOR 10-15 MINUTES. PHOTOS PROVIDED VIA TWITTER.
21:00 UTCTORNADOTwin ArrowsCoconino, AZCORRECTS PREVIOUS FUNNEL CLOUD REPORT. POTENTIAL LANDSPOUT SPOTTED NEAR I-40 EAST OF WINONA NEAR THE TWIN ARROWS TRADING POST. PERSISTED FOR 10-15 MINUTES. PHOTOS PROVIDED VIA TWITTER.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.

This ground now

The live radar over the trackEvery 2022 tornado in ArizonaEvery tornado in Arizona since 1950Warnings in force in Arizona nowThe forecast where you are

The other tornadoes of June 23, 2022

7 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
June 232:03 PM MSTUnratedPinal, AZ0.615
June 235:25 PM CDTUnratedRussell, KS0.150
June 235:54 PM CDTUnratedRussell, KS0.150
June 236:20 PM CDTUnratedLincoln, KS0.150
June 236:39 PM CDTUnratedLincoln, KS0.150
June 237:26 PM CDTUnratedSaline, KS0.150
June 237:30 PM CDTUnratedSaline, KS0.150

What this means

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

Sources

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.