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EF0 tornado in Wayne County, Nebraska

Tornado May 12, 2023 · Wayne County, Nebraska

EF0
Rating
0.3 mi
Path length
20 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 20 yards (0.01 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

A tornado began in an open field and tracked across the east side of a farm, tipping a grain wagon, damaging trees, lifting an open shed, and damaging the roof of another shed. The debris was deposited up to 150 yards downstream where the track appeared to end in an open pasture prior to crossing 852nd road. Special thanks to Wayne County emergency management and Stanton County emergency management for assistance with the damage survey and drone-based evaluation.

The wider storm

A strong low-pressure system which had been slowly moving east off the Rocky Mountains finally progressed into central Nebraska. This left eastern Nebraska in the warm sector as a warm front moved north into the area. The SPC issued an Enhanced Risk for severe weather with a 30% hatched for severe hail. There ended up being 19 confirmed tornadoes (3 EF2, 8 EF1, 4 EF0, 4 EFU). There were numerous hail reports the largest of which was 4.5 inches in Pawnee County. Another 4-inch report was received in Richardson County. Flash flooding was also observed in a few locations.

Began near Wayne (42.1723, -97.0562).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Dodge CountyEF2 Dodge CountyEF1 Boone CountyEF1 Pawnee CountyEF1 Stanton CountyEF1 Madison CountyEF1 Stanton CountyEF1 Stanton CountyEF1 Stanton CountyEF1 Burt CountyEF0 Dodge CountyEF0 Wayne CountyEF0 Richardson CountyEFU Platte CountyEFU Madison CountyEFU Burt CountyEFU Burt County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1097235. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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