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EF0 tornado in El Paso County, Colorado

Tornado June 7, 2012 · El Paso County, Colorado

EF0

Rating

0.5 mi

Path length

75 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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 rare anticyclonic tornado occurred over open fields causing no damage.

The wider storm

Supercell storms produced very large hail and two tornadoes in El Paso County.

Began near Ramah (39.0700, -104.1885).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF2 El Paso County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 377959. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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