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Tornado May 26, 2023 · El Paso County, Colorado

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Not rated

0.9 mi

Path length

1 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 1 yards (0.00 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. 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

There was a brief 15 to 20 second spin up along a converging outflow boundaries.

The wider storm

Ample low level moisture aided in creating an incredibly unstable environment with enough wind shear to create severe thunderstorms and some landspout tornadoes.

Began near Yoder (38.9300, -104.2300).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EFU Kiowa County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1104449. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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