EF2 tornado, Fruitland, Utah, June 19, 2022

1. EF065 to 85 mph

   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 mphthis tornado

   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.

Rating

EF2

Date

June 19, 2022

Touchdown

9:13 AM MDT (15:13 UTC)

Lifted

9:17 AM MDT (15:17 UTC)

On the ground

4 minutes

Path length

2.1 miles (3.3 km)

Path width

880 yards (805 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Duchesne County

Touchdown point

39.882, -110.745

Lift-off point

39.912, -110.739

Record number

2206190913-01

8 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS SLC, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF2. The highest wind the damage implies is 125 mph.

• High density of snapped hardwood trees, as small as 6 inch diameter up to 14 inch diameter. Widespread violent topping of trees noted in this area, next to no trees left standing in the area. Softwood trees up to 24+ inch diameter snapped as well.
• Edge of damage path where it crossed the road. Part of snapped tree deposited on other side of the road; another snapped tree up high on hillside
• Apparent left edge of track. Softwood around 24 inch diameter snapped.
• Two snapped aspens and a snapped softwood, several smaller adjacent trees uprooted.

Survey points are preliminary and are the raw material the published rating was built from. Source: NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit.

A widespread high wind event across Utah was followed by strong thunderstorms associated with a system spanning a three-day period. These storms produced numerous instances of severe wind gusts, in addition to a tornado, a report of hail, and flash flooding.

A tornado developed near the summit of US-191 and Argyle Canyon |Road in remote southwestern Duchesne County at about 9200 feet. |Sporadic damage is noted in this area as it moved north over a |ridge line and into a valley adjacent to US-191 along Indian |Canyon.||The tornado then descended down the length of the valley from |about 9200 feet to a creek adjacent to US-191 at an elevation of |about 8500 feet. Over this period, both the strength and and width|of the tornado increased substantially with a continuous damage |path through a mixed aspen and conifer forest. The maximum damage |was found in this area and was significant. Almost all trees over |a large hillside facing the road were violently blown down, |snapped, or topped into a clearly convergent axis. Several tree |tops were desposited along the creek and road with no clear |indicatation as to where they orginated.||The tornado then crossed US-191 and ascended the hillside from |about 8500 feet to another ridge on the northwest side of the road|to an elevation of about 9100 feet. Considerable damage was noted|immediately north of US-191 where numerous trees were snapped or |uprooted, although not to the severe extent noted on the south |side of the road. Damage decreased considerably up the hillside to|the top of the 9100 foot ridge line with more sporadic toppled |trees.||A few toppled trees were noted into the next basin over the ridge|on the north side of the road, marking the last discernible |damage from the tornado, and the end of the 2 mile damage path.

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 12:44 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 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.

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

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

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

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.