F0 tornado, Burley, Idaho, June 24, 2004

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.

Rating

F0

Date

June 24, 2004

Touchdown

4:40 PM MDT (22:40 UTC)

Path length

1.0 miles (1.6 km)

Path width

20 yards (18 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Cassia County

Touchdown point

42.800, -113.930

Lift-off point

42.800, -113.930

Record number

258

Spotter reported tornado 15 miles north of Hazelton. No reports of damage.

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

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

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 Storm Prediction Center had this point in a General Thunderstorms Risk. The outlook in force was issued at 19:59 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.

NWS Pocatello, ID wrote its last area forecast discussion before the tornado touched down at Jun 24, 3:00 PM MDT, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID
300 PM MDT THU JUN 24 2004

.DISCUSSION...
SCATTERED CONVECTION OVER THE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN MTNS AND ARE
BEGINNING TO DRIFT INTO THE SNAKE PLAIN THIS AFTERNOON. CAPES
APPROACHING 1000 J/KG AND MODEST SHEAR SO ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS
POSSIBLE FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING. BLOCKING RIDGE REMAINS IN
PLACE THROUGH FRIDAY THEN GETS NUDGED EAST BY EASTERN PACIFIC LOW.
PACIFIC LOW WILL TRACK FAR ENOUGH TO THE NORTH TO PREVENT ANY CHANGE
IN THE RELATIVELY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS OVER THE CWA FOR THE
NEXT SEVEN DAYS. SO...HAVE INCREASED POPS TO INCLUDE AT LEAST SLIGHT
CHANCE OF SHOWERS/TSTMS THROUGH THE EXTENDED. TEMPERATURES WILL BE
NEAR OR SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL THROUGH THE PERIOD.  WAW

&&

.PIH WATCHES/WARNING/ADVISORIES...NONE.
&&

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID
430 AM MDT THU JUN 24 2004

IDZ017>023-031-032-251200-
EASTERN MAGIC VALLEY-BIG AND LITTLE WOOD RIVER REGION-
SAWTOOTH MOUNTAINS-LOST RIVER/PAHSIMEROI-UPPER SNAKE HIGHLANDS-
UPPER SNAKE RIVER PLAIN-LOWER SNAKE RIVER PLAIN-
SOUTH CENTRAL HIGHLANDS-CARIBOU HIGHLANDS-
430 AM MDT THU JUN 24 2004

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN IDAHO

.DAY ONE...
NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...
NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
WE ASK ALL TRAINED SPOTTERS TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER
CONDITIONS. THIS INFORMATION SHOULD BE CALLED INTO THE LOCAL
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN POCATELLO USING THE 1-800 SEVERE
WEATHER HOTLINE...OR OTHER STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.

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.

The live radar over the trackEvery 2004 tornado in IdahoEvery tornado in Idaho since 1950Warnings in force in Idaho nowThe forecast where you are

1 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

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.

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