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EF0 tornado in Wilkin County, Minnesota

Tornado August 7, 2010 · Wilkin County, Minnesota

EF0

Rating

1.0 mi

Path length

15 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 15 yards (0.01 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. 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 tracked for about a mile through mainly open fields. This was the latter of three distinct tornadoes which occurred from at least four distinct funnel clouds in Wilkin County during a roughly 15 to 20 minute period. Peak winds were estimated at 75 mph.

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 Nashua (46.0800, -96.3300).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF4 Wilkin County EF1 Otter Tail County EF1 Grant County EF1 Otter Tail County EF0 Wilkin County EF0 Otter Tail County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 239950. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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