[1] Damage occurred at elevations ranging from 8,500 to 10,000 feet (2,600 to 3,000 m), making it the highest-altitude violent tornado recorded in the United States.

The lone area of F4 damage was found north of Gravel Ridge,[1]: 1923  based on a small area affected by the worst tree damage: large Engelmann spruce trees between 30–40 centimetres (12–16 in) in diameter were found uprooted and stripped of their bark, with the bare trunks spattered with wind-blown topsoil.

[1]: 1917  A group of nine campers near Enos Lake reported that they saw no funnel cloud, but that the storm developed quickly and a "roar like a train in the distance" was accompanied by hailstones the size of golf balls.

[1]: 1926  The tornado then descended into Pacific Creek Valley before climbing up to a high plateau at nearly 9,800 feet (3,000 m) in elevation, weakening significantly.

[3] After the July 23 report of a massive blowdown in the Teton Wilderness by the Forest Service, Fujita arranged for multiple aerial surveys by Cessna aircraft of the tornado's track, resulting in more than 1,400 photographs that recorded every single damaged tree.

The Wyoming Chapter of the Sierra Club opposed the suggestion on the grounds that the harvesting would require many miles of logging roads through wilderness and would create a dangerous precedent.

Though several thousand acres of the tornado blowdown track remained unaffected,[9] it prevented Fujita and his colleagues from returning to perform follow-up aerial photographic surveys and site visits.