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EF0 tornado in Renville County, Minnesota

Tornado June 2, 2024 · Renville County, Minnesota

EF0

Rating

0.3 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

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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

A storm chaser filmed a brief tornado. It broke a few large branches before moving into an open field and dissipating.

The wider storm

On Sunday evening June 2 and into Monday June 3, a round of strong storms developed across eastern SD and southwestern MN along a stationary boundary. These storms produced a brief tornado in Renville County, wind damage in Morrison County, and small hail in Stevens County. There were also 3 to 4 inches of heavy rain in central Minnesota, with flooding reported in Todd and Sibley Counties.

Began near Sacred Heart (44.6948, -95.3342).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1208154. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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