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EF0 tornado in Stearns County, Minnesota

Tornado May 15, 2025 · Stearns County, Minnesota

EF0
Rating
2.8 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
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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 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 tornado was spotted about 4.5 miles east-northeast of Spring Hill. A virtual storm survey was performed using storm chaser video. It was determined that the tornado was an EF-0 with approximate maximum wind estimated at 75 mph.

The wider storm

A very strong low pressure system produced storms on Thursday, May 15th, 2025 across the Upper Midwest. Two main areas of storms formed across south and west central Minnesota during the early afternoon.

One line of storms formed over west central Minnesota, producing a few tornadoes in Chippewa, Swift, and western Stearns counties. Another line of storms had many rotating wall clouds reported over south central Minnesota and into the Twin Cities metro.

Began near Spring Hill (45.5250, -94.7760).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

3 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Swift CountyEF0 Swift CountyEF0 Chippewa County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1260903. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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