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EF0 tornado in Cherry County, Nebraska

Tornado July 15, 2025 · Cherry County, Nebraska

EF0
Rating
0.8 mi
Path length
20 yd
Path width
$10K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 20 yards (0.01 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

Tornado initially touched down in a shelter belt where it produced 1 to 3 inch diameter tree limb damage. The tornado tracked to the southeast approximately one mile where it broke windows at a farmstead.

The wider storm

Thunderstorms developed south of an approaching cold front and in the vicinity of a surface trough of low pressure during the late afternoon hours of July 15th. Activity developed in Grant and southern Cherry County around 3 PM MDT and quickly became severe. Thunderstorm coverage became more widespread into the evening hours as activity tracked into the central and eastern Sandhills, as well as portions of north central Nebraska. One tornado was reported north of Mullen along with hail up to 2 inches in diameter and thunderstorm wind gusts up to 65 MPH.

Began near Brownlee (42.1430, -101.0870).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1281756. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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