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EF0 tornado in Steele County, North Dakota

Tornado July 22, 2022 · Steele County, North Dakota

EF0

Rating

0.9 mi

Path length

150 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 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

This tornado snapped several cottonwood, ash, and spruce trees in farmstead and field shelter belts in northeastern Finley Township. Survey conducted in cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Steele County Sheriffs Office, and Steele County Emergency Management Officials.

The wider storm

Clusters of thunderstorms combined into a line of storms during the late evening in eastern North Dakota, then moved southeastward through the region over the next several hours. Significant damaging winds, and large hail were reported, as well as two tornadoes.

Began near Finley Arpt (47.5600, -97.7600).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Grand Forks County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1049469. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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