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EF0 tornado in Mower County, Minnesota

Tornado August 5, 2024 · Mower County, Minnesota

EF0

Rating

2.7 mi

Path length

70 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

$25K

Crop damage

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 70 yards (0.04 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

This EF-0 tornado stayed mostly in open fields five miles north of Taopi, Minnesota. Tree and light structural damage was reported at one residence near the end of the tornado's path.

The wider storm

During the evening hours on August 5th, a line of severe thunderstorms brought strong winds to portions of southeast Minnesota. Additionally, an embedded supercell thunderstorm would go on to produce two tornadoes in southeast Minnesota.

Began near Grand Meadow (43.6300, -92.6200).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF0 Mower County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1212807. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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