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Tornado in Brown County, Minnesota

Tornado August 26, 2024 · Brown County, Minnesota

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Not rated

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.

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

A storm chaser took video of a tornado and a nearby resident confirmed its specific location. The tornado moved across open fields before dissipating.

The wider storm

A complex of thunderstorms developed during the afternoon of August 26, and grew upscale into a line of storms that produced widespread wind damage across central and eastern Minnesota. There were likely hundreds, if not thousands of trees damaged across the Twin Cities metro area.

Began near Essig (44.3594, -94.6182).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1211033. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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