EF0 tornado — Mower County, Minnesota

EF0 tornado in Mower County, Minnesota

Tornado June 17, 2009 · Mower County, Minnesota

EF0

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

15 yd

Path width

$1K

Damage as recorded

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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 brief tornado was witnessed by the Le Roy Fire Department storm spotters.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms were triggered along a warm front during the evening of June 17. One of the storms produced two known tornadoes, one that initially touched down near the Dodge and Mower County line, northwest of the city of Austin. The tornado then moved through far north sections of Austin to areas about 3 miles east of Austin. The worst tornado damage was considered EF2 about 3 miles north of downtown near the intersection of 243rd and 4th street northwest. The bulk of the remaining damage was considered EF0 and EF1. The tornado was on the ground from approximately 8:00 p.m. until 8:23 p.m. Path length was about 10 miles long and had a maximum width of 120 yards. Another small tornado touched down southeast of this track in open country in rural Mower County.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 179263. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF0 tornado in Mower County, Minnesota

What the National Weather Service wrote

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