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EF0 tornado in Alamosa County, Colorado

Tornado May 20, 2013 · Alamosa County, Colorado

EF0
Rating
0.1 mi
Path length
75 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 landspout occurred over a field.

The wider storm

A brief landspout caused no known damage in northwestern Alamosa County.

Began near Mosca (37.6800, -106.0100).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 447863. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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