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EF0 tornado in Morgan County, Colorado

Tornado August 3, 2013 · Morgan 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 in an open field. No damage was reported.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms brought damaging hail, wind, tornadoes, heavy rain and flash flooding to portions of the Urban Corridor and Northeast Plains. Very large hail, ranging from quarter to softball size, caused extensive damage to property and crops. Several small and brief non supercell tornadoes touched down but did little if any damage. Most the damage was the result of the large hail, intense thunderstorm winds, heavy rain and flash flooding. In Erie, a velodrome under construction was heavily damaged.

Began near Ft Morgan (40.2700, -103.7900).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

6 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF0 Washington CountyEF0 Lincoln CountyEF0 Weld CountyEF0 Weld CountyEF0 Weld CountyEF0 Weld County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 459937. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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