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EF0 tornado in Meeker County, Minnesota

Tornado July 11, 2008 · Meeker County, Minnesota

EF0

Rating

3.0 mi

Whole path

25 yd

Path width

$200K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Meeker County → Wright County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 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

Damage survey team reported downed trees in Meeker County. The tornado continued into Wright County, where a roof was ripped off a home and some sheds were destroyed.

The wider storm

Instability ahead of a cold front which moved from the Central Dakotas on the morning of the 11th, to the Eastern half of Minnesota by the early evening hours, was the prime ingredient for scattered to numerous severe thunderstorms across the region, during this period.

Began near Dassel (45.1153, -94.2721).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Kandiyohi County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 129317. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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