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EF1 tornado in Marshall County, Minnesota

Tornado June 12, 2022 · Marshall County, Minnesota

EF1

Rating

2.7 mi

Path length

300 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 300 yards (0.17 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

This tornado was likely wrapped in heavy rain, hail and damaging winds as it tracked for roughly 2.5 miles to around 3 miles SSW of Middle River by 353 pm CDT. It snapped or uprooted numerous ash, poplar, and spruce trees at homesteads and groves along it's path. A total of 6 wooden power poles were snapped on north-south lines along 120th and 130th ave ne. Hail ranged in size from 1 to 2 inches in diameter. Peak winds estimated to 105 mph, with a max width of 300 yards.

The wider storm

Scattered severe thunderstorms produced large hail, damaging wind gusts, and tornadoes during the afternoon of June 12th.

Began near Newfolden (48.4021, -96.2736).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF0 Pennington County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1041826. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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