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EF0 tornado in Clay County, Minnesota

Tornado June 20, 2022 · Clay County, Minnesota

EF0

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 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

Video shows a brief tornado formed along a gust front. The tornado tracked eastward through an open field west of the buffalo river state park for roughly a mile, ending about 4 miles west of Muskoda by 652 pm CDT. Maximum wind speeds to 80 mph. Maximum width to 100 yards. Time estimated based on spotter reports, radar, and nearby wind sensor reports.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms formed during the afternoon, moving across the southern and central portions of the Red River Valley, then into west-central and northwest Minnesota. Wind gusts to 85 mph were reported, along with 2 tornadoes, and numerous other reports of hail and high wind damage.

Began near Stockwood (46.8600, -96.5000).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

2 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Norman County EF1 Beltrami County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1042513. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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