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F1 tornado in Kittson County, Minnesota

Tornado July 9, 1995 · Kittson County, Minnesota

F1
Rating
10.0 mi
Path length
70 yd
Path width
8
Injuries
$3.0M
Damage as recorded
What F1 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F1 meant moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken; the scale paired it with winds of 73–112 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Several funnel clouds were sighted in the same area, northwest of Hallock. After several brief touchdowns, one tornado remained on the ground one mile northwest of Hallock and traveled south to southeast to three miles east of the town of Kennedy. The tornado collapsed the roof of the grandstands at the Kittson County Fairgrounds, where 800 people had been several minutes earlier. Many homes and businesses were damaged or destroyed in Hallock. Path length, width and property damage were estimated.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 10331331. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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