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EF0 tornado in Clear Creek County, Colorado

Tornado July 28, 2012 · Clear Creek County, Colorado

EF0

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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 touched down briefly but did no damage.

The wider storm

A tornado touched down briefly at the southeast corner of Mt. Evans near Lincoln Lake. The estimated elevation where this tornado touched down was near 12,500 feet. This would make this tornado one of the highest ever recorded in the U.S.

Began near Georgetown (39.5800, -105.6300).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 391188. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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