High altitude tornado confirmed in Utah

INDIAN CANYON, UT. (WHSV) – A uncommon excessive altitude twister has been confirmed by the Nationwide Climate Service in Salt Lake Metropolis, UT. The storm taking place on Sunday morning, June 19, 2022.

This occurred at Indian Canyon, which is southeast of Salt Lake Metropolis.

The elevation of the twister because it began, an unbelievable 9,200′. The Nationwide Climate Service stories that the twister began close to a mountain summit, moved over a ridgeline and right into a valley alongside Indian Canyon.

The twister descended from the beginning elevation of 9,200′ to about 8,500′ near a creek.

The NWS notes that the winds elevated because the twister took this path because it went down in elevation. What we find out about twister analysis within the final 2 many years is {that a} twister can intensify touring down a mountain (or terrain), and may sometimes weaken touring up terrain.

So the truth that this twister intensified because it went down the mountain is smart. That is known as vortex stretching. In truth the twister shortly intensified resulting in important tree injury.

The tree injury within the picture above is a transparent signal of a twister. You possibly can see how the bushes criss cross, there’s not a transparent reduce straight sample.

We name this convergent and even chaotic. When bushes fall like this, which means it’s from a twister and never straight-line winds.

The trail was 2 miles lengthy and the width was almost 900 yards huge.

This uncommon excessive altitude twister was rated an EF-2 with winds of 125mph. This occurred round 9:00 a.m on Fathers Day, and a close-by climate station recorded a gust of 62mph.

Now this did occur in a distant space so fortunately nobody was injured.

These are the best altitude tornadoes on report in the USA. At 9,200′ the Utah twister doesn’t crack the highest 5 however it’s shut.

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