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EF0 tornado in Red Willow County, Nebraska

Tornado May 23, 2024 · Red Willow County, Nebraska

EF0

Rating

0.4 mi

Path length

28 yd

Path width

$1K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 28 yards (0.02 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 two-minute duration EF-0 tornado snapped branches off a cedar tree, which was the only damage found along the path. Winds were estimated to be 85 mph.

The wider storm

In the evening hours of the 23rd, a few storm cells fired off of a cold front coming in from the northwest. As the evening progressed, the scattered storms formed a well organized line of storms. The storms produced baseball sized hail, damaging winds up around 85 MPH, one EF1 and one EF0 tornado.

Began near Perry (40.2117, -100.7282).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Hitchcock County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1183185. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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