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EF0 tornado in Douglas County, Oregon

Tornado June 18, 2013 · Douglas County, Oregon

EF0
Rating
0.1 mi
Path length
10 yd
Path width
$1K
Damage as recorded
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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 neighbor witnessed the tornado for about 1 minute. She heard a very loud noise and looked out the window where she saw 'a funnel cloud on the ground' whipping around very fast and blowing apart a carport canopy sheltering a boat. The carport canopy was held down by four-gallon sized buckets filled with water. These buckets went flying into the boat and fence. The boat received a gash, and the metal pipe fence rail was broken. A satellite dish on the roof was also turned 90 degrees. The tornado then moved into an empty field and dissipated. There was no damage to the house, but the Christmas lights were pulled down.

The wider storm

On Tuesday, June 18th, 2013 at 330 pm PDT an EF0 tornado with winds between 65 and 85 mph occurred 4 miles northwest of Roseburg in Douglas County, Oregon. This is the first documented tornado to occur in Douglas County based on the Storm Prediction Center's (SPC) database going back to 1950.

Began near Winchester (43.2799, -123.4162).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 449258. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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