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Tornado in Mendocino County, California

Tornado February 27, 2023 · Mendocino County, California

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Not rated

0.1 mi

Path length

10 yd

Path width

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

Not rated. NOAA lists no rating for this tornado. Ratings come from surveying damage, and the National Weather Service now records “EFU” (unknown) when a tornado hit nothing a survey team could rate.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Video footage by the public showed a waterspout moving onshore as a tornado southeast of Shelter Cove. Tornado quickly dissipated as it encountered steep terrain.

The wider storm

A stormy pattern persisted through the end of the week. Storms from the 26th through the 28th are included here with snow reported to low elevations and very heavy snow over 2000 feet across much of Northwest California.

Began near Piercy (39.9844, -124.0016).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1086339. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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