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EF1 tornado in Stanton County, Nebraska

Tornado June 15, 2024 · Stanton County, Nebraska

EF1
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 EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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

Based on chaser video as well as drone footage, this tornado developed 5.5 miles north of Clarkson, NE and moved east northeast. The tornado then produced EF-1 damage to a machine shed on a farmstead. The narrow tornado continued northeast another mile before lifting. Peak estimated winds in this tornado were at 101 miles per hour. The maximum width and average width of this tornado were both estimated to be 50 yards.

The wider storm

On the morning of the 15th, upper air analysis showed a shortwave trough centered over the High Plains. At the surface, a warm front draped across the Plains slowly lifted north throughout the day, eventually stalling out across eastern Nebraska and down into northwestern Missouri. That afternoon, two areas of thunderstorm development was noted, one in northeast Kansas and another in northeast Nebraska. The thunderstorms in northeast Kansas quickly grew upscale into an MCS bringing strong winds and a brief spin-up tornado to southeast Nebraska and southwest Iowa. The thunderstorms in northeast Nebraska were tied to a lingering MCV, with the storm mode initially remaining as clustered supercells. This brought large hail and several tornadoes across northeast Nebraska before finally growing upscale into a second MCS and tracking east into west-central Iowa.

Began near Stanton (41.8100, -97.1300).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1198483. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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