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EF0 tornado in Rio Grande County, Colorado

Tornado September 25, 2012 · Rio Grande County, Colorado

EF0

Rating

1.4 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

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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 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 strong storm produced a non-mesocyclone (landspout) tornado just south of Del Norte. There was minor damage to several properties...including one property which sustained damage to a camper and minor structural damage to the house.

The wider storm

A strong storm produced a non-mesocyclone (landspout) tornado.

Began near Del Norte (37.6695, -106.3506).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 404822. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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