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EF0 tornado in Colusa County, California

Tornado March 21, 2011 · Colusa County, California

EF0

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

10 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 10 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

At approximately 3:05 pm an EF0 tornado touched down in a pasture about 2 miles west of downtown Maxwell. The pasture is located just north of Maxwell Sites Rd., between McDermott Rd. and Danley Rd. There was no damage observed, but several witnesses observed a brief touchdown in the grassy field, which is used as pasture for a herd of buffalo. There were no injuries nor fatalities.

The wider storm

A brief tornado touched down near the town of Maxwell in Colusa County.

Began near Maxwell (39.2800, -122.2374).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 299794. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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