Tornadoes · United States · Idaho · 1995

F0 tornado, Blaine County, Idaho, June 5, 1995

This F0 tornado ran 0.1 miles across Blaine County on June 5, 1995, touching down at 8:39 PM MDT and reaching 10 yards wide. It killed nobody.

The rating scale

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

  1. F040 to 72 mphthis tornado

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

  2. F173 to 112 mph

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

  3. F2113 to 157 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. F3158 to 206 mph

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

  5. F4207 to 260 mph

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

  6. F5261 to 318 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
F0
Date
June 5, 1995
Touchdown
8:39 PM MDT (02:39 UTC)
Path length
0.1 miles (0.2 km)
Path width
10 yards (9 m)
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
County
Blaine County
Touchdown point
43.230, -114.350
Record number
683

The surface observations

Hailey - Friedman Memorial (SUN), 30 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

Time (UTC)Temp (°F)Dew point (°F)WindGust (kt)Pressure (mb)Weather
00:00 UTC

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of airport observations.

This ground now

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The other tornadoes of June 5, 1995

19 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
June 53:38 AM EDTF0Duval, FL3.010$50,000 to $500,000
June 54:20 AM EDTF1Camden, GA0.110$50,000 to $500,000
June 54:00 AM CDTF1Camden, FL to GA4.013$50,000 to $500,000
June 57:30 AM EDTF1Glynn, GA0.733$5,000 to $50,000
June 511:05 AM EDTF1Beaufort, SC3.040$50,000 to $500,000
June 53:43 PM CDTF0Floyd, TX0.220
June 53:55 PM CDTF0Floyd, TX0.320$5,000 to $50,000
June 52:04 PM PDTF0Lyon, NV0.5300$50,000 to $500,000
June 54:05 PM CDTF2Floyd, TX13.0350$50,000 to $500,000
June 54:20 PM CDTF0Story, IA5.020$5,000 to $50,000
June 55:05 PM CDTF0Dickens, TX0.220
June 55:37 PM CDTF0Dickens, TX0.220
June 56:08 PM CDTF0Haskell, TX0.110
June 55:20 PM MDTF0Clark, ID0.110$500 to $5,000
June 56:42 PM CDTF0Haskell, TX0.110
June 56:52 PM CDTF0Stonewall, TX0.220
June 57:04 PM CDTF0Kent, TX0.220
June 57:15 PM CDTF0Garfield, OK0.123
June 58:12 PM CDTF0Garfield, OK0.123

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.