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EF1 tornado in Wheeler County, Nebraska

Tornado May 12, 2023 · Wheeler County, Nebraska

EF1
Rating
3.4 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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

This tornado touched down and mainly impacted open areas. However, a few stands of trees were damaged, with trunks snapped and large limbs lost.

The wider storm

A closed low pressure system moved slowly across the northern Plains and spawned multiple tornadoes across north central Nebraska.

Began near Bartlett (41.8299, -98.5221).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Wheeler CountyEF1 Custer CountyEFU Custer CountyEFU Custer CountyEFU Wheeler CountyEFU Custer CountyEFU Logan County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1103700. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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