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EF0 tornado in Davison County, South Dakota

Tornado May 5, 2007 · Davison County, South Dakota

EF0

Rating

1.9 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

$10K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Hanson County → Davison County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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

A tornado which began in Hanson county caused no additional reported damage as it crossed into Davison County and quickly dissipated.

The wider storm

Numerous thunderstorms during the afternoon and evening of May 5th produced large hail, damaging winds, several tornadoes, and flash flooding in southeast South Dakota. Significant damage was reported from several locations.

Began near Mitchell (43.7200, -97.9600).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 34976. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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