EF0 tornado in Dakota County, Minnesota

Tornado August 29, 2024 · Dakota County, Minnesota

EF0

Rating

7.9 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Dakota County → Goodhue County → Pierce County, Wisconsin; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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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 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 tornado developed at the southern edge of Bellwood Oaks Golf Course, uprooting several trees, then continued northeast. A narrow path of sporadic tree damage occurred along the track, with the last damage in Minnesota being on Blackbird Trail in Dakota County. The tornado tracked across a sliver of northern Goodhue County before crossing the Mississippi River into Wisconsin, dissipating about 5 miles southeast of Prescott in Pierce County.

The wider storm

A well-defined cold front associated with a strong upper-level low produced widespread wind damage and a few tornadoes throughout central and eastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin on August 29th, 2024. Four tornadoes occurred. There were also a number of downbursts, with some of the most significant downburst damage in Champlin, Anoka, and Cottage Grove.

Began near Miesville (44.6443, -92.8381).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Morrison County EF1 Anoka County EF1 Anoka County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1201033. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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