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EF1 tornado in El Paso County, Colorado

Tornado June 7, 2012 · El Paso County, Colorado

EF1

Rating

7.5 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

Injury

$50K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 moved south-southwest into El Paso County from Elbert County. A house was damaged. Four nearby barns, one a dog kennel, were destroyed. Two dogs perished. Another ranch to the south was damaged from the tornado winds and flying debris.

The wider storm

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

Began near Ramah (39.1282, -104.2474).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 El Paso County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 377964. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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