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EF0 tornado in Glenn County, California

Tornado March 8, 2010 · Glenn County, California

EF0

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

$50K

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 rancher observed a tornado passing along a road, over a pond and then through a barn. A storm survey was done at the site, with the tornado rated as an EF0. The main damage was the roof of the barn was peeled back. A small trailer also suffered minor damage.

The wider storm

Scattered showers and thunderstorms developed in the afternoon. A tornado was reported in the town of Chrome, Glenn County. This tornado damaged the roof of a barn. A funnel cloud was sighted near Cottonwood. Thunderstorms also dropped small hail and locally heavy rain over many locations in the northern Central Valley and into the Motherlode.

Began near Chrome (39.7300, -122.5500).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 218977. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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