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EF1 tornado in Teller County, Colorado

Tornado August 9, 2024 · Teller County, Colorado

EF1

Rating

0.9 mi

Path length

400 yd

Path width

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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

Damage assessment team confirmed an EF-1 tornado briefly touched down near four mile road. with winds estimated up to 100 mph. The tornado was on the ground for 0.92 miles with an estimated 400 yard wide path of damage. Approximately 300 trees were downed.

The wider storm

An upper-level pattern which allowed for a sufficient mid-level monsoonal moisture plume to be established over the region aided in the development of storms, which produced heavy rainfall and lead to some heavy amounts of rain and minor flash flooding from the 7th thru 10th of August. A severe storm which developed over Teller County also allowed for a rare tornado to occur over high terrain, just NNE of Cripple Creek, on the 9th of August.

Began near Cripple Creek (38.8000, -105.1400).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1212705. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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