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EF0 tornado in Rutland County, Vermont

Tornado July 13, 2023 · Rutland County, Vermont

EF0

Rating

11.8 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

$50K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 20 yards (0.01 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

Numerous trees and power lines were downed in multiple directions near Benson and along it's path. Confirmed peak winds of 85 mph.

The wider storm

A mid level disturbance combined with a surface front and weak wave of low pressure moved across an unstable air mass over Vermont during the afternoon and evening of July 13th. Several lines of showers and thunderstorms moved across the region with some storms producing damaging winds, including a microburst and a weak tornado.

Began near Benson Lndg (43.7316, -73.3608).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1125796. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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