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EF0 tornado in Wilkin County, Minnesota

Tornado August 7, 2010 · Wilkin County, Minnesota

EF0
Rating
0.2 mi
Path length
25 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

This tornado touched down briefly in an open field, roughly seven miles east of a larger and much longer lasting tornado.

The wider storm

By late in the day on the 7th, an east-west lying warm front had set up just north of the South Dakota border, extending eastward into west central Minnesota. South of the warm front, temperatures were in the mid to upper 80s with dew points in the lower 70s. Thunderstorms formed along and north of the warm front and several produced tornadoes.

Began near Tenney (46.0600, -96.5100).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

6 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF4 Wilkin CountyEF1 Otter Tail CountyEF1 Grant CountyEF1 Otter Tail CountyEF0 Wilkin CountyEF0 Otter Tail County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 239945. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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