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EF0 tornado in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota

Tornado July 25, 2023 · Kandiyohi County, Minnesota

EF0

Rating

1.4 mi

Path length

75 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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 brief tornado formed along a quasi-linear convective system (QLCS) and moved into New London. It took part of the roof off of three homes and a large shed. Other homes sustained shingle, soffit, and siding damage. At least 200 trees were broken or uprooted. Some of the adjacent damage appeared to be associated with inflow winds. The tornado was associated with a surge in the QLCS which then caused damaging downburst winds that started several miles west of New London and continued into Meeker County (see separate entries).

The wider storm

On the late evening of July 25, a supercell developed in the eastern Dakotas and moved into west central Minnesota. This supercell grew upscale into a small bow echo as it moved east/southeast into central and eventually eastern Minnesota during the overnight hours of the 25th into the 26th. The storm produced a damage swath about 1 to 2 counties wide, with some enhanced damage from near Stevens County down through the Stearns/Kandiyohi county line. There was also a brief EF0 tornado near New London.

Began near New London (45.3009, -94.9739).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1105893. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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