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Tornado in Rice County, Minnesota

Tornado July 13, 2024 · Rice County, Minnesota

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Not rated

0.5 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 20 yards (0.01 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

Not rated. NOAA lists no rating for this tornado. Ratings come from surveying damage, and the National Weather Service now records “EFU” (unknown) when a tornado hit nothing a survey team could rate.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Storm chaser located at the intersection 270th St E. and 59th Ave observed a brief tornado to the north-northwest. No damage was reported.

The wider storm

Scattered clusters of storms resulted in large hail over portions of east-central Minnesota during the afternoon on July 13. One storm produced a brief tornado in Rice County. A line of storms then developed over northwestern Minnesota during the evening and travelled southeast across central Minnesota throughout the night. This line led to numerous reports of hail and wind damage before it weakened as it moved into Wisconsin.

An unusually warm and humid air mass resulted in heat index values greater than 100F across portions of southern and western Minnesota during the afternoon and evening of July 13. The combination of several thunderstorms and persistent cloud cover kept heat index values in the low to mid 80s further east.

Began near Moland (44.2627, -93.1389).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1204575. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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