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EF0 tornado in Cuming County, Nebraska

Tornado June 15, 2024 · Cuming County, Nebraska

EF0
Rating
2.2 mi
Whole path
25 yd
Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Stanton County → Cuming County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 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

This is a continuation of the EF-0 tornado that occurred in northeast Stanton County. This tornado did not produce any further damage in Cuming County. The end of the tornadoes track was determined using chaser footage. The peak estimated windspeeds in this tornado were 70 miles per hour, with a width of 25 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 Wisner (42.0375, -97.0194).

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 1198489. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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