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EF0 tornado in Harney County, Oregon

Tornado June 27, 2023 · Harney County, Oregon

EF0

Rating

2.1 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 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 pilot report remarked that a small tornado to the surface was visible near Riley, OR. Haze made it hard to retain any other details. This was likely a brief landspout.

The wider storm

A small thunderstorm with weak rotation produced a land spout that was visible from the air. This was reported from a pilot near Burns, OR.

Began near Riley (43.5743, -119.3324).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1108892. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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