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EF0 tornado in Elbert County, Colorado

Tornado June 23, 2009 · Elbert County, Colorado

EF0

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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 small tornado touched down but did no damage.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms produced quarter size hail across Adams, Denver, Douglas and Elbert Counties. In addition, wet microbursts produced thunderstorm outflow winds up to 80 mph across Logan, Morgan, Phillips and Sedgwick Counties. Two weak tornadoes were reported in Elbert and Logan Counties. The severe weather caused a fatal automobile accident along Interstate 76 between Sterling and Julesburg.

Began near Matheson (39.1700, -103.8900).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Logan County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 166954. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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