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EF0 tornado in Yuma County, Colorado

Tornado August 8, 2023 · Yuma County, Colorado

EF0
Rating
1.7 mi
Path length
193 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 193 yards (0.11 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

Chasers observed a tornado in the location with damage to corn crop circles found via Sentinel 2 imagery.

The wider storm

During the afternoon hours, a strong supercell developed over Logan and Washington Counties. As the storm moved southeast near the community of Hyde, Colorado, it produced a EF-3 tornado that continued into Yuma County. The tornado reached it's peak intensity while just southwest of the city of Yuma with significant damage to a residence and two metal buildings. The supercell continued to move south then southeast across Yuma County to produce a total of seven tornadoes, with one EF-2 tornado moving into far north Kit Carson County. The other tornadoes were ranked EF-U with another north of Abarr ranked an EF-0. The storm also produced thunderstorm wind gusts up to 100 mph with damage to trees and power poles. Large hail was another hazard produced with 1 to 5.25 inch hail reported across Yuma County. The 5.25 inch hailstone fell near Kirk, Colorado, and set a new hail size record for the state of Colorado. After crossing into Kit Carson County the thunderstorm turned east, producing more severe weather in Sherman County Kansas.

Began near Abarr (39.9045, -102.7160).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Yuma CountyEF2 Yuma CountyEFU Yuma CountyEFU Yuma CountyEFU Yuma County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1136353. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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