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EF0 tornado in Sutter County, California

Tornado June 1, 2011 · Sutter County, California

EF0

Rating

5.1 mi

Path length

10 yd

Path width

$50K

Crop damage

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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 5:30 pm an EF0 tornado touched down north of Yuba City and moved northeast, crossing from Sutter County into Yuba County and thereby north of Marysville. There was little damage in the area that appeared to be caused by the tornado. The determining factor was the credible description and sequence of events by witnesses who saw the tornado develop and move through peach and walnut groves. There were no injuries nor fatalities.

The wider storm

A tornado touched down north of the Yuba City/Marysville metro area in Sutter and Yuba counties.

Began near Berg (39.1832, -121.6719).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 299833. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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