Weather service confirms last week’s storms produced a second Utah tornado

  • Federal meteorologists confirmed a second Utah tornado from last week’s storms.
  • A weak tornado touched down near Jensen, Utah, causing no damage.
  • The tornado was rated EF-U due to unknown wind speeds and characteristics.

JENSEN, Uintah County — A severe thunderstorm system that produced a rare mountain tornado in Davis County last week also produced a small tornado near the Utah-Colorado border as it passed through the state, federal meteorologists have confirmed.

About 5 p.m. on Friday, a “brief and weak” tornado touched down between Jensen and Dinosaur, Colorado, the National Weather Service’s Grand Junction, Colorado office wrote in a preliminary incident report on Tuesday. The office handles weather alerts and reports within eastern Utah.

“The tornado did not cause any damage and lasted a few minutes,” the agency wrote in its report. “The tornado was witnessed by several members of the public.”…

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