EF0 tornado — Nicollet County, Minnesota

EF0 tornado in Nicollet County, Minnesota

Tornado September 4, 2025 · Nicollet County, Minnesota

EF0

Rating

3.5 mi

Path length

40 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

$5K

Crop damage

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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

Satellite and drone imagery confirmed a brief tornado in a cornfield southeast of Lafayette MN. It traveled east for 3.5 miles and damaged the roof of a hog barn and produced crop damage along its path. The tornado was rated EF0.

The wider storm

On the evening of September 4, a broken line of thunderstorms developed and produced gusty winds across western Minnesota. The strongest gust was 62 mph at the Granite Falls airport.

As the storms moved east, the produced two weak tornadoes. These tornadoes caused mainly crop damage, but there was also some damage to a couple groves of trees, and some roof damage to a hog barn. The tornadoes were both rated EF0, with peak winds of 70 to 80 mph.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1282166. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF0 tornado in Nicollet County, Minnesota

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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