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EF0 tornado in Elbert County, Colorado

Tornado June 11, 2010 · 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 tornado touched down but no damage.

The wider storm

A large complex of thunderstorms swept across Northeast Colorado producing very large damaging hail, intense thunderstorm winds as well as a couple of weak tornadoes. Large hail, from 1 to 3 inches in diameter, caused extensive damage to cropland, homes and vehicles. In southeast Weld County, 50,000 acres of cropland was pummelled. The combination of heavy rain and hail produced flash flooding over parts of Phillips and Weld Counties. Electrical outages were also reported in Weld County. Straight-line winds snapped 6 utility poles near Amherst in Phillips County. Two small tornado also touched down but no damage was reported.

Began near Matheson (39.1300, -103.9300).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Lincoln County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 232784. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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