EF0 tornado — Rice County, Minnesota

EF0 tornado in Rice County, Minnesota

Tornado April 28, 2025 · Rice County, Minnesota

EF0

Rating

0.4 mi

Path length

40 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 40 yards (0.02 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 group of trees sustained damage and an outbuilding lost its roof and wall panels. The maximum estimated wind was 75 mph.

The wider storm

Strong to severe thunderstorms had developed across a surface cold front that moved east across Minnesota during the afternoon hours of April 28th. Increased southerly moisture transport from a +50kt low-level jet had reached as far north as the Twin Cities metro which helped destabilize the environment. A few supercells were able to develop and produce hail mainly quarter size to ping-pong ball size although the largest hail stone was golf ball size six miles south of Owatonna.

This line of storms also produced two tornadoes in Rice and Goodhue Counties which causing heavy damage to several semi-and tanker trucks, collapsing building walls and a few farm outbuildings. Maximum estimated tornadic wind speeds were 110 mph.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1247390. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF0 tornado in Rice County, Minnesota

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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