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EF1 tornado in Laramie County, Wyoming

Tornado June 26, 2023 · Laramie County, Wyoming

EF1
Rating
3.5 mi
Path length
1,000 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 1,000 yards (0.57 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

A confirmed tornado developed approximately 10 miles SW of Albin at 6:52 PM MDT. The tornado snapped 11 wooden utility poles, but otherwise caused little damage as it remained over open fields before dissipating around 7-8 miles SW of Albin at 7:05 PM MDT.

The wider storm

A long-lived supercell thunderstorm developed over the higher terrain of the central Laramie Range in far northwestern Laramie County near the Platte County late in the afternoon on 6/26. This thunderstorm quickly became severe as it tracked to the east-southeast across northern and eastern Laramie County through the early to mid evening hours, before exiting into western Nebraska. Multiple tornadoes were reported over rural eastern Laramie County, with an official NWS damage survey confirming two EF-1 tornadoes to the west and southwest of Albin, and an EF-0 tornado 8 miles ESE of Albin. In addition to the tornadoes, this storm also produced up to baseball sized hail near Gun Barrel. Additional isolated severe storms occurred over Converse County later in the evening.

Began near Gun Barrel (41.3650, -104.2800).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1098986. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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