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EF0 tornado in Polk County, Minnesota

Tornado July 7, 2025 · Polk County, Minnesota

EF0

Rating

0.6 mi

Path length

10 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 10 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

Nielsville FD reported multiple brief touchdowns near the pilling station lasting no more than 30 seconds and doing no reported damage other that stripping some leaves off crops. Spotters also reported a funnel with intermittent touchdowns near the Nielsville pilling station.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms including supercells produced large hail, damaging winds and tornadoes across parts of eastern North Dakota and west central Minnesota.

Began near Nielsville (47.5600, -96.8200).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Polk County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1282393. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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