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EF1 tornado in Alamosa County, Colorado

Tornado August 16, 2008 · Alamosa County, Colorado

EF1

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$8K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. 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

A brief tornado destroyed a mobile home in a rural area.

The wider storm

A tornado occurred east of Mosca during the midafternoon. While there were few structures in that area...the tornado destroyed an unoccupied mobile home.

Began near Mosca (37.6278, -105.7360).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 123481. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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